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David Welton writes: > > I would put my 'difficulties with scheme' issues in 2 categories: 1. > it really *is* different from everything else I've done.. I > definitely fumed a bit when I discovered that there was no 'while' > built into the language (and appluaded the fact that guile does have > one), and 2. the fact that, except for some things here and there like > slib and guile, scheme doesn't seem aimed so much at the "everyday > programming tasks" crowd, like Perl, Python, Tcl, etc.. I think Guile > will help change this. 'while' can be easily replaced with recursion or a do construct, I don't see any reason for missing it. > > > BTW- is it possible to compile guile to use kernel threads? I saw code > > for several different thread packages (mostly labeled as obsolete), but I > > don't see the familiar LinuxThreads among them - and grepping for clone() > > doesn't find anything. > > >From 'man clone': > > " This call is Linux-specific and should not be used in pro grams > intended to be portable. You may use POSIX threads instead." > > Grep for 'pthread', and 'mutex'... I think I saw something looking > through the sources last night, but I didn't stop and examine it. > What is so bad about threads implemented in user space like via the qthread lib that everyone except myself cries for kernel level threads? Klaus Schilling