On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Mitya Sirenef <msire...@lightbird.net> wrote: > It's also worth noting that if there's a new language that is somewhat > better than all established languages, but not to the extent that it > will ever replace them (because of network effects), it's not really > better for any practical purposes -- present and future[*] ecosystem is a > part of a language's value proposition.
Right. In a pure and clinical sense, it may be "better" - it might save you 10% on dev time and 25% on run time, say - but if it costs you more than that in support and documentation when you explain to people how they have to install a new language interpreter to use it, it's a much less promising proposal. (That's why Gypsum, my MUD client written in Pike, is still a toy. I was fully aware that I was saddling it with an obscure language interpreter.) ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list