Fwd: [Scheme Steering Committee announcements] New Scheme Language Steering Committee

[Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com>]

FYI.

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From: Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com>
Date: 2009/3/7
Subject: Fwd: [Scheme Steering Committee announcements] New Scheme
Language  Steering Committee
To: Mitchell Wand <wand@ccs.neu.edu>
Cc: r6rs-discuss-owner@lists.r6rs.org


Thanks,

I gave it a try, but the mailing list seems to be
user-hostile; contributing to the problem, rather
than its solution.  Bummer.

Could you repost this for me? I assume you have
permissions to post there.

--linas

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Date: 2009/3/7
Subject: Re: [Scheme Steering Committee announcements] New Scheme
Language Steering Committee
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From: Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com>
To: r6rs-discuss@lists.r6rs.org
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 18:03:26 -0600
Subject: Re: [Scheme Steering Committee announcements] New Scheme
Language Steering Committee
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From: Mitchell Wand <wand@ccs.neu.edu>
Date: 2009/3/7
Subject: Re: [Scheme Steering Committee announcements] New Scheme
Language  Steering Committee
To: linasvepstas@gmail.com
Resending...

-- linas

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> 2009/3/2 Mitchell Wand <wand@ccs.neu.edu>:
> > I am pleased to officially announce the results of the election for the
> > Scheme Language Steering Committee.
>
>
> Thanks to all who voted. I'm not familiar with the work
> of the steering committee, and so abstained; however,
> as a scheme user, I am very concerned about its status
> and future and general social acceptance.
>
> I interact daily with Java programmers and  Python users,
> and work on a project whose components are variously
> written not only in guile, but also perl, C, C++, SQL, and
> of course python, ruby and java. Many people I interact with
> do not have a clear idea of what scheme/lisp *is*; and for
> some reason there's a slight negative connotation
> associated with lisp .. possibly fear; I cannot gauge the
> core problem.  However, these folks do affect the
> decision-making process, and push the project in
> various directions.  Thus, as a scheme user, it is vital
> for me that scheme (guile) have a widespread, positive
> perception and acceptance.
>
> Perception is not enough: I'd like to see the actual fruits:
> a large selection of libraries; library repositories analogous
> to CPAN; debugging, tracing and performance-tuning  tools,
> credible integration with other popular technologies, and so
> on.  Aside from a focus on the core language, stuff like
> this is what's needed to make Scheme vibrant; I'd like to
> see it happen.
>
> --linas
>