On Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:36:38 -0400, Aubrey Jaffer <[email protected]> wrote:
> | Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 11:49:29 +0200 > | From: Antonio Vieiro <[email protected]> > | > | .... > | > | Then, again, that's *the* problem. If we don't have a set of > | libraries (even though they're "not that good") then what would > | happen is that people is going to use less powerful languages, and > | that the future of Scheme will ruined. > > R4RS and R5RS have a good set of libraries in SLIB > <http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/SLIB>. Check it out. I don't use SLIB, but I believe an important point here is that we *do* have a lot of code around. I don't think people in Python or the other communities care whether they are using a standard interface or not. I think they really are concerned with whether they can easily find and use a library. I think finding the libraries is the harder part at the moment, but the community also needs to make an effort to make their code more easily integrated into different Scheme systems. Descot should help with finding and using libraries to some extent, but it won't solve the problem that people in Schemeland often don't care about whether their code is going to run on another system. Make it easy to do what a programmer wants, and the programmer will probably stick with Scheme. Right now, people perceive Scheme has hard to use because they think they have to write everything from Scratch. That's just not true, even right now. Aaron W. Hsu -- Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. -- C. S. Lewis _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
