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> I'm happy learning Scheme/Lisp just to learn about how to design a language
> and
> to eventually implement a Scheme/Lisp interpreter. Beyond that we'll see what
> happens in a few years, but right now, I'm not sure
> I'm interested in making Scheme/Lisp my new best friend for all projects....
>
> I'm perfectly happy with Python and C. Do we really want yet another language
> to grow a hugh community and compete with what we got now?
>
Given that they've been around for decades and never had success in the
marketplace, I wouldn't worry about it. But success in the marketplace isn't
the only useful thing about a language. I don't find Scheme/Lisp very useful
for actually programming in, but I'm glad they exist- it means that other
ideas on how to program were explored. Even if they were found wanting by the
majority of devs, so long as people keep exploring someday someone may come up
with a language better than C. I'm just not holding my breath :)
My biggest annoyance about language design these days is that people are
thinking too small. Like Lisp or not, its a totally different idea than the C
family. It seems like every new language I hear about these days is a C family
language with some syntactic sugar thrown in. No new ideas, just slight tweaks
on old ones.
Gabe
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