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Guile vs. Scheme48 as extension language


Robert E. Brown writes:
 > 
 > Can someone familiar with both Scheme48 and Guile comment on Scheme48's
 > suitability as an extension language as compared to Guile?
 >  
 > I've used Guile before as an extension language, but recently I've been
 > experimenting with Scheme48's module system and it seems pretty nice.  It
 > doesn't appear too hard to call C functions from Scheme48, but having C code
 > call Scheme may be tougher.  What are the pitfalls of using Scheme48?

Scheme48 's licensing policy makes it unusable for GNU projects.

Klaus Schilling