On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Isaiah Norton <isaiah.nor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> - Scheme: because Julia is a Trojan Horse to finally make the world use > Lisp. because it keeps the pesky peasants out. because it's a great > compiler language and allowed fast implementation and iteration. There is > some interest in moving the front end to pure Julia, and the parser has > been ported already (JuliaParser.jl) -- that's about ~1/3 of the job. > Porting the lowering and sorting out bootstrapping is a fair amount of > effort and would likely need to be done by people who could be making more > user-relevant improvements elsewhere. So far, doing so hasn't been a > priority. > There's something delightful about the fact that in order to change the syntax of Julia, you must first prove yourself proficient in a language that actively rejects the very concept of fancy syntax.
