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Re: [tlug] ruby and python in Japan



Al Hoang writes:

 > 	Funny you should say this about JavaScript as I think this is
 > a problem endemic of Scheme as well since the R5RS standard for
 > Scheme only specifies a (relatively) small set of things to conform
 > to.  It seems there are more scheme dialects than dialects of
 > Chinese[1] floating around with just enough differences that I'm
 > going presume you can't expect a non-trivial program you write for
 > one dialect of scheme to easily work with a different scheme
 > implementation [2], unfortunately.

No, it's rarely a question of *dialect*, just which external libraries
have bindings.  The important thing is for different implementations
to agree on a common FFI.



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