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From: holder@tochna.technion.ac.il (Ophir Holder)
Subject: Comparison of OO systems for Scheme
Organization: Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 12:38:01 GMT
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Hi All.

I'm considering doing OO programming in Scheme and am wondering
what OO system to use. The systems available (from the CMU Scheme
FAQs page - http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/Groups/AI/html/faqs/lang/
scheme/part1/faq-doc-6.html) are: BOS, MEROON, SCOOPS, Tiny CLOS 
and YASOS.

I need this for compiler construction project under MIT-Scheme.
Does anyone have any experience with those systems, any good or
bad opinions about their reliability, efficiency, ease of use
and other characteristics? Can anyone compare between them?
Any other suggestions/opinions/pros-cons about OO programming
in Scheme will be most valuable. 

I would like to emphasize that I don't need the OO system for
doing OO research but rather for real-world programming. For
example, I'm not so much interested in the MOP - Meta Object 
Protocol (though it'll be nice to play with it).

Thanks for any help.

Ophir.

