On 2/2/07, Brandon J. Van Every <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Some people actually use Scheme as part of their commercial business model. But they are few and far between. Their economic results are not easily reproduced by most people. Whereas anyone can learn C++, Java, and C# and then go make money.
I actually worked for a couple years at a company that makes money using Scheme. They use Chez for a couple of very specific vertical-market applications, and not very simple ones either. The compiler was wonderful - very fast and produced tight code, directly from scheme to machine code. But it's very proprietary, and the graphics support basically sucked and looked dated (it's based on TK). It worked just well enough to get the job done, graphics-wise, but otherwise it was a good fit, and that job was what got me into Scheme (after having used Lisp for just one course at the university, and never again after). I enjoyed the coding, but (somewhat reluctantly) left to get a bigger salary and better working environment... The end-users didn't know or care what language it was written in - it was just a Windows .exe file that happened to put up a funky-looking UI. :-) If there were a nice portable (Windows, X/GTK or QT, MacOS) widget library that isn't a hassle to use, I'd use Scheme in my present job too, for a couple of simple internal-use-only applications that need to be written one of these days. I would want the same result - be able to make a standalone .exe on Windows. Using native widgets on each OS would be a plus, too. _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
