Re: Porting CGEN to other Scheme implementations

[Jim Blandy <jimb at redhat dot com>]

Doug Evans <dje@transmeta.com> writes:
> Jim Blandy writes:
>  > 
>  > I'm interested in porting CGEN to MzScheme.  MzScheme has an active
>  > development community, and (of particular interest to Red Hat) an
>  > actively maintained Scheme-to-C compiler.  I'd like to talk about how
>  > I'm thinking of approaching it, and see what folks think.
> 
> How good is the debugging capabilities of MzScheme?
> Compared to Guile?  1/2 :-)

MzScheme has much better debugging capabilities, I think.  They have
an IDE called DrScheme which does all kinds of great stuff.  Here's a
screen shot of DrScheme giving me an error backtrace:

> OOC, how come Redhat has a particular interest in a Scheme-to-C
> compiler?

Well, just speed.

> btw, one day I want to port CGEN to Rscheme, for fun's sake.

Absolutely!  May the most useful win.