From: Matt Wette <matt.wette@gmail.com>
To: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to make GNU Guile more successful
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 17:31:06 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5006A625-8B11-462D-80DF-8D5177D37593@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPjoZoeH2=epVHfC+mnO9qHrOHebYvpq6WOPfpz3B=FOc4Ev8A@mail.gmail.com>
Scheme is not for everyone. But getting more people to use it is going to mean people seeing what it offers over other languages. I do a fair amount of Python programming. Python code is fairly portable: my Mac comes with it installed and so I can send code to anyone with a Mac and it will probably run. Python also has a *huge* set of libraries. Writing extension code (in C) for Python sucks, though. And Python `lambda’ is weak.
And Python does not work well on tasks that Scheme excels at: tree structures, little-languages, list processing, etc. If you want more people to use Scheme/Guile you need to write applications that demonstrate it’s strengths over other languages. I know of nothing that beats Scheme macros for building your own language extensions: that capability is so awesome. And Scheme looks pretty promising to me for handling XML-based tree structures (e.g., SXML with foldts and friends).
Matt
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2017-03-04 23:41 How to make GNU Guile more successful Alejandro Sanchez
2017-03-05 0:23 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2017-03-05 8:23 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2017-03-05 14:19 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2017-03-05 3:09 ` Erik Edrosa
2017-03-05 11:57 ` Jan Wedekind
2017-03-07 3:29 ` Erik Edrosa
2017-03-05 14:27 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2017-03-05 16:43 ` Nala Ginrut
2017-03-05 23:46 ` Alejandro Sanchez
2017-03-06 9:00 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2017-03-06 1:31 ` Matt Wette [this message]
2017-03-07 4:07 ` Erik Edrosa
2017-03-05 9:40 ` David Kastrup
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2017-03-10 2:08 Vítor De Araújo
2017-03-10 9:55 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2017-03-10 10:03 ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2017-03-10 14:27 ` vbuaraujo
2017-03-10 15:08 ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2017-03-11 7:19 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2017-03-13 15:55 ` Nala Ginrut
2017-03-13 16:14 ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2017-03-10 20:17 ` Amirouche
2017-03-11 0:50 ` Vítor De Araújo
2017-03-11 3:02 ` Vítor De Araújo
2017-03-11 7:42 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2017-03-14 3:26 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-02-20 6:05 Michael Vehrs
2017-02-20 20:41 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2017-02-21 6:01 ` Michael Vehrs
2017-02-21 17:18 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2017-02-21 18:19 ` Amirouche
2017-02-21 18:31 ` Mike Gran
2017-02-21 18:33 ` Amirouche
2017-02-21 18:41 ` Mike Gran
2017-02-21 18:15 ` Amirouche
2017-02-21 19:25 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2017-03-01 19:25 ` Amirouche
2017-03-03 5:28 ` Nala Ginrut
2017-03-03 9:18 ` David Kastrup
2017-03-03 11:30 ` Nala Ginrut
2017-03-03 12:19 ` David Kastrup
2017-03-03 13:35 ` Nala Ginrut
2017-03-04 23:44 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2017-03-05 2:05 ` Thomas Morley
2017-03-05 14:01 ` Thomas Morley
2017-03-05 14:09 ` David Kastrup
2017-03-05 14:13 ` Thomas Morley
2017-03-05 14:27 ` Thomas Morley
2017-03-03 17:21 ` Matt Wette
2017-03-03 19:09 ` Amirouche
2017-03-03 19:16 ` Amirouche
2017-03-03 19:24 ` Mike Gran
2017-03-03 20:10 ` Matt Wette
2017-03-03 20:09 ` Matt Wette
2017-02-22 5:51 ` Michael Vehrs
2017-02-18 1:04 sirgazil
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2017-02-18 15:29 ` sirgazil
2017-02-18 16:55 ` David Pirotte
2017-02-19 18:09 ` sirgazil
2017-02-20 1:00 ` David Pirotte
2017-02-12 23:56 Amirouche
2017-02-13 0:21 ` Amirouche
2017-02-13 11:06 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2017-02-13 12:14 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2017-02-13 20:20 ` Amirouche
2017-02-13 23:08 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2017-02-13 20:28 ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2017-02-13 20:42 ` Amirouche
2017-02-13 22:34 ` Marko Rauhamaa
2017-02-13 23:56 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2017-02-14 0:18 ` David Kastrup
2017-02-14 22:21 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2017-02-15 17:03 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-02-16 19:18 ` sirgazil
2017-02-16 20:26 ` Amirouche
2017-02-14 5:59 ` Marko Rauhamaa
2017-02-14 19:36 ` Linas Vepstas
2017-02-14 20:54 ` Marko Rauhamaa
2017-02-14 22:20 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2017-02-13 22:54 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2017-02-14 9:54 ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2017-02-14 21:35 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2017-03-01 19:21 ` Amirouche
2017-03-10 20:23 ` Amirouche
2017-07-14 21:54 ` Linas Vepstas
2017-07-14 21:59 ` Marko Rauhamaa
2017-07-15 10:10 ` Jan Wedekind
2017-07-15 12:55 ` Nala Ginrut
2017-07-15 12:58 ` Nala Ginrut
2017-07-15 22:17 ` Jan Wedekind
2017-07-16 9:54 ` Nala Ginrut
2017-07-17 18:52 ` Arun Isaac
2017-07-18 11:22 ` Ernest Adrogué
2017-07-16 8:30 ` Freja Nordsiek
2017-07-16 9:18 ` Marko Rauhamaa
2017-07-16 10:11 ` Freja Nordsiek
2017-07-16 10:31 ` Marko Rauhamaa
2017-07-16 10:39 ` Freja Nordsiek
2017-07-16 10:45 ` Freja Nordsiek
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