Re: [Chicken-users] Standard APIs for databases, Web-apps

[Graham Fawcett]

On 2/10/06, Brandon J. Van Every <address@hidden> wrote:
> Still, I'll be honest, I have a hard time seeing that happening for
> *any* Chicken egg.  It may be "standard for Chicken" but I'm not
> convinced Chicken has a large enough user community to ever create
> broader standards.  Python has tons more people than Chicken, it is much
> much farther along in its tools and community evolution than Chicken
> is.  Never mind Java.  Meanwhile, each Scheme implementation is a right
> unto itself, the playing field is very fragmented.'

Points well taken. But it's never to early to start -- if evolution is
a community goal, then a little forthought into common interfaces is
better done sooner, rather than later when the community code base
(and resultant dependencies) may have grown significantly.

Best,
Graham