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From: Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com>
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Subject: Re: X in every language syndrome
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2024 02:18:23 -0000 (UTC)
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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:
>
>> ...
>>   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.]
>
> Stupid question: why do you consider Scheme using a library to be more
> "low level" than Lisp using a package?
>
> 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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