Artisan Coder » meroon http://www.artisancoder.com Software development as a craft Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:57:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Meroon for Gambit-C http://www.artisancoder.com/2008/10/meroon-for-gambit-c/ http://www.artisancoder.com/2008/10/meroon-for-gambit-c/#comments Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:21:35 +0000 Alex http://www.ventonegro.org/?p=46 Meroon is a Scheme object system by Christian Queinnec. It is portable, fast, CLOS-like and reflexive. The Meroon home page cites versions for several popular Scheme systems, including Gambit-C. But the links to the Gambit-C version are broken. Doing a bit of research, that actually involved some guessing, I found the Meroon Gambit-C port in Bradley Lucier’s home page. Instructions to build this Meroon port can be found in this thread in the Gambit-C mailing list.

I am not a heavy user of object orientation, but I can certainly see its value where it is worth. In the LiSP book, for instance, a beautiful interpreter and a compiler are written in OO-style, in chapter 3 and 10, respectively. Another example is writing a scene graph for a Computer Graphics application, it almost begs to be written object-oriented.

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