scripting language vs. developer community size
Ariel Rios
ariel@arcavia.com
Mon, 15 Jan 2001 00:21:35 -0500 (EST)
> Because there are very few people who know how to program in Scheme
> compared to the number of people who know how to program in C, C++, Java, or Perl.
Basically your argument is: "Scheme is bad for there are not many
programmers". However you forget that Scheme is easier than C,
C++, Java, Perl and the idea of a scripting language
is to give the user an easy way of creating scripts and extending
your application. Scheme has proved to be an excellent if not the best
option as a scripting language. The power of lisp has already been
showed by emacs an elisp...
ariel