scripting language vs. developer community size

[Tyson Dowd]

On 15-Jan-2001, Dan Kegel <dank@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
> By the way, I went and bought a Scheme book today at my favorite technical
> bookstore (Op-Amp Books in Los Angeles).  I asked the clerk where the Scheme
> books were and he sniggered... there was an entire wall of C++ books,
> and just four books about Scheme (three, if you don't count duplicates).
> Now I'm reading about car, cdr, caar, cddr, cadr, cdar, and the like.
> How nice that all the keywords of the language are so intuitive and high-level,
> uninfluenced by the hardware the language originally ran on.

Hmm... C++ has a PDP-11 instruction in its *name*... ;-)

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