Re: X in every language syndrome

On 2024-07-08, George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> wrote:

On Sun, 24 May 2020 00:30:21 -0600, Jeff Barnett <jbb@notatt.com>
wrote:
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  By the way, these "use" directives are about as low
level as you can get. Why doesn't the system load whatever is used? Is
your toy designed for less then megabyte memory machines. [There's two
questions buried in here.]

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Stupid question: why do you consider Scheme using a library to be more
"low level" than Lisp using a package?
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Gauche is a bit odd in that it has both "use" and "require", but the
difference is only syntax. Gauche has a culture of distinguishing use
of the built-in extensions ("use") vs other libraries ("require").

The built-in stuff should not require any magic incantation to come
online. If such a thing is needed in something calling itself a Lisp
dialect, that's embarrassing.

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