[HN Gopher] Three Implementation Models for Scheme (1987) [pdf]
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       Three Implementation Models for Scheme (1987) [pdf]
        
       Author : tosh
       Score  : 65 points
       Date   : 2025-03-11 13:19 UTC (2 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (legacy.cs.indiana.edu)
 (TXT) w3m dump (legacy.cs.indiana.edu)
        
       | Ericson2314 wrote:
       | I know what Chez Scheme is, but I had not heard of this FFP
       | machine before.
       | 
       | https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2147821/what-is-an-ffp-m...
        
       | bjoli wrote:
       | Chez scheme is still around and is a pretty stellar piece of
       | software. I have found that finding bugs in smaller language
       | implementations is uncommon, but not rare. At least once you
       | leave the happy path.
       | 
       | I have written well over 100k lines of scheme that runs on chez
       | and I have had zero issues. The documentation is clear with good
       | descriptions of even hairy topics like macro phasing and the
       | module system.
        
         | pjmlp wrote:
         | Racket has replaced their C codebase with Chez Scheme, yet
         | another success story.
        
         | cellularmitosis wrote:
         | Incredibly, they support OS X on PowerPC.
        
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