From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin C.Atkins To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Threads: Sewing badges of honor onto a Kernel Message-Id: <20040303092849.635b69f5.martin@parvat.com> In-Reply-To: <200403011915.i21JFw0P068107@adat.davidashen.net> References: <20040301190215.GA18554@localhost.localdomain> <200403011915.i21JFw0P068107@adat.davidashen.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 09:28:49 +0530 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0e4c5980-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 23:15:58 +0400 (AMT) David Tolpin wrote: >... > No. It is because the spec is written by people who come from culture of > detailed specifications; and it is because a part of the specification is > dedicated to binary compatibility, which few other languages provide. Still > yet, the specification for Java, 504 pages, is SMALLER than specification for > ANSI/ISO C, which 554 pages. No. The Revised^5 report on Scheme is only 50 pages - and that includes a full denotation semantics for the language - almost by definition, nothing can be more "detailed" than that! OK, so maybe Scheme is a "smaller" language - whatever that means - but not 10 times smaller (and perhaps being smaller is a good thing, not a bad thing!). Martin -- Martin C. Atkins martin@parvat.com Parvat Infotech Private Limited http://www.parvat.com{/,/martin}