On 2/1/07, felix winkelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't know "why Chicken", I can only judge for myself - its the "road of least suckage" for me (which should tell you something about how incredibly bad todays software is. Or yesterdays. We are still in the stone age. No, we are million years before that).
Incidentally, the present discussion vividly reminds me of an essay by Steve Yegge that I read some days back: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/01/pinocchio-problem.html Yegge touches upon Scheme and Lisp multiple times while contemplating the general suckage of software and the factors which help some software suck less. Chicken would certainly seem to have all of the desirable traits Yegge enumerates, with the exception of the currently missing killer app. Before he gets all tangled up in the metaphysics of software, later on in the essay, the material is spot on for the discussion at hand. Worth a read if you have a minute. -- Arto Bendiken | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bendiken.net/ _______________________________________________ Chicken-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-hackers
