Re: Scheme syntax vs. other languages

[David Rogers]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:


> People use more Scheme than they probably realize, and getting 
> Scheme help by "devs" tends to work mostly unspectacularly.

["unspectacular" often means "not very good". I think you must be 
using unspectacular to mean "it just happens, without too much 
trouble".]

> That's really not something one can take for granted in general 
> concerning extension languages.  That does not mean that it 
> can't be improved.  But it is easy to underestimate how much 
> work it would take to arrive at net gains from a 
> language/architecture switch.  I don't think that the situation 
> is in a state that starting from scratch would make a lot of 
> sense. 


Especially since you (and others) are getting a lot of work done 
right now - I think it would be a shame to interfere with that.

--
David R