rosenkra@Alliant.COM (Bill Rosenkranz) (09/11/88)
---- having just seen the latest list of GNU goodies at osu-cis, could someone tell me what "MIT C Scheme" is? it would (in general) be nice to have a one line description of what each archive contains (most all the other archives are relatively easy to figure out, but this puppy is approx 2 MB and i haven't a clue other than it has SOMETHING to do with C). thanx a priori -bill
wisner@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Bill Wisner) (09/12/88)
Scheme is a dialect of the Lisp proramming language. "C" refers to the fact that it's written in C.
bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) (09/12/88)
In article <2351@alliant.Alliant.COM> rosenkra@alliant.UUCP (Bill Rosenkranz) writes: >having just seen the latest list of GNU goodies at osu-cis, could >someone tell me what "MIT C Scheme" is? Scheme is a Lisp, and C Scheme is a Scheme written in C, and MIT C Scheme is a C Scheme that came from MIT. I understand that there are others. Please note that MIT C Scheme is not a product of the Free Software Foundation. It is distributed by FSF as another free software system, but comes from Abelson and Sussman's group at MIT, not RMS's group at FSF. People may get uptight at mis-attributions, even of free software. >it would (in general) be nice to have a one line description of what >each archive contains That's a good idea. We used to have brief descriptions of each item in the GNU.how-to-get instructions, but as the set of things we distribute grew, the descriptions went by the wayside in the interests of abbreviating the instruction file. I'll see if I can come up with some one-liners. -=- Zippy sez, --Bob What a COINCIDENCE! I'm an authorized ``SNOOTS OF THE STARS'' dealer!!