I am still waiting for all my favourite applications to be extendable in GNU Guile.
On a more general note, I am still waiting for the world to fall for lisp in general.
On a more general note, I am still waiting for the world to fall for lisp in general.
Gah, aren't we all? Watching John Carmack push Scheme for the Oculus Rift 2 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydyztGZnbNs] made me feel like something was right in the universe.
Since I found Haskell, no. Not anymore.
And I don't expect Haskell to take over the world either. I do expect a large crop of new languages that extend on the concept, and some of them to take over the world.
Scheme pursued a foolish simplicity, foregoing the complexity necessary to deal with the real world.
It's a wonderful language for implementing language interpreters, but I wouldn't want to write large programs in it. For that, the only thing worth using is Common Lisp.
And dynamic-wind is the price you have to pay for call/cc. UNWIND-PROTECT is not the same thing. Multi-shot continuations is he reason. One way would be having explicit one-shot continuations and escape continuations. Those are faster and will make UNWIND-PROTECT work.
I am more in favour of delimited continuations though.
Delimited continuations makes that a bit simpler (since you can easily implement something like dynamic wind using them).