2011/9/5 Michael Schumacher <schum...@gmx.de>: > I'd like to comment on the blog post, or see comments by someone else, but > I'd like to clarify our plans for Scheme in GIMP first.
If we look at what programming languages that are popular [1], we can see that the vast majority of languages in use today have a syntax where 1 + 1 is written "1 + 1" and not "(+ 1 1)". If we want to have a main scripting language that as many as possible can use with as little effort as possible, Scheme is simply not an alternative. For most programmers, Scheme is an odd language. In the long term I think it is inevitable that we need to replace Scheme with something that has a syntax that is more mainstream. However, doing the switch is a huge task and we have other things that are more important to work on, so I don't see this happening any time soon. / Martin [1] http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html -- My GIMP Blog: http://www.chromecode.com/ "Single-window mode feature complete" _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
