Re: What's so cool about Scheme?

[Steve Dekorte <address@hidden>]

On Friday, June 6, 2003, at 10:02 AM, Russ Ross wrote:
>> Which Scheme would result in a smaller code base? Scheme48 is about 
>> 25K
>> lines of code. Given that the book makes no mention(I didn't see
>> anything and there's not index entry) of garbage collection, I assume
>> the code base would need to include Scheme itself for the runtime?
>
> How many lines of code in the gcc distribution or in glibc?

Does Scheme not use libc?

Cheers,
Steve
"Statically typed languages are like American sports cars.
They go fast, but only in a straight line"