My impression: the TeXmacs code and documentation has improved greatly since I last tried to hack something.
Yes, I have the same feeling.
However - Scheme still is one of the most uncomfortable languages that I've worked on. No wonder TeXmacs has such a little group of active contributors. :-(
In this respect too, I (unfortunately) have the same feeling. On the other hand, programming languages are more or less the same, so it should be possible to do things for improving the readability of Scheme code (for example more macros for usual programming constructs like (foreach), (while), etc.). With this, plus a better documentation, it should be possible to define a simpler style for usual programming in TeXmacs/Scheme, and thus make the learning curve easier, somehow. More precisely, in effect, some things are really nerdic in Scheme (the most obvious being the crap non-syntax with lots of parentheses), but the usual way to overcome these problems in Lisp dialects is to write macros that allow you to completely reshape the language itself : thus perhaps the problem doesnt completely disappears, but on the other hand, the programming language becomes powerful in a way that can be found nowhere else. But perhaps I don't look exactly at the right place : could you elaborate more on why, precisely you feel that Scheme is one of the more uncomfortable languages for you ? Best, Henri _______________________________________________ Texmacs-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev
