[rescue] fans fans fans...

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Fri Jun 21 23:44:53 CDT 2002


On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 05:53:32PM -0400, dave at cca.org wrote:
> jp at celestrion.net writes:
> 
> >Now, once you get past that, Scheme does a lot of things more easily than
> >C does:
> >  * Bignums (required as parts of R5RS)
> >  * Arbitrarily-large data structures (with automatic garbage collection)
> >  * On-the-fly function composition (functions are lists)
> >  * Functional encapsulation (unnamed functions within functions)
> >  * Processing data structures that are recursive in nature (ex: XML)
> 
> If I recall correctly, some desktop publishing program (Framemaker?)
> stored documents as lisp.

It would be an appropriate thing to do.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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