On Nov 3, 2008, at 6:47 PM, Thomas Lord wrote: > What do you expect to change? What will another year of few people > working on much of anything in or on Scheme bring about? What will 10 > years of that bring?
I was commenting on your expectations, not mine. You said: On Nov 3, 2008, at 3:35 PM, Thomas Lord wrote: > The effort to add a module system was premised, > roughly speaking and informally attributing motive, to Steele's notion > of a "growable" language and with faith that "if you build it they > will > come." > > Well, it got built. They didn't come. This is pretty much a cargo-cult[*] fallacious reasoning. Having a module system is necessary for sharing code and building reusable software components. It is however not a sufficient reason for getting people to build such components. Not having a standard module system was an impediment, yes, but that does not automatically guarantee that we'd get any quality libraries once the impediment is removed. I don't know what another year (or 10) will bring to the table. Things that I want I'm building as time and other constraints permit; and others are doing the same. It's not reasonable to expect people to be "cranking" code at astounding pace just because a standard document is out; right? There is far more to it than that. Aziz,,, [*] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
