[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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?
I wouldn't worry about it. Quoting:
http://www.xent.com/pipermail/fork/Week-of-Mon-20080128/048243.html
This thing is ALL about making almost completely superficial tweaks
to the regular Lisp lexicon of terms and forms. There's no substance
here. Continuations and call/cc? Who knows, maybe. Objects? Eh,
kind of, but we're not really taking a stand. Standard library?
Fuggedaboutit. Support for new stuff like lots of new literal syntax
for useful datatypes (time / date, URI, pathnames, etc.)?
Unification of docs, objects, and tables ala C-Omega / LINQ?
Embedding of markup as first-class literal syntax? New concurrency
prims? Exposed internals / reflective stack? Compilation? FFI?
Baked-in serialization of all types, including closures and
continuations? Join calculus? Selective lazy evaluation?
Progressive typing? Tail call optimization required? Bueller?
Bueller?
Smoke another one.
There's NOTHING NEW HERE. Just a bunch of trivial abbreviations and
minor syntactic sugar. There's NO innovation! FWIW, Rebol circa 8
years ago was a far more impressive "new Lisp" than Arc! If you're
looking for new ideas in programming languages that are going to
allow you to solve lots of problems a lot more easily, don't bother
looking here. OTOH, if you're a die-hard Lisper who just loves to
learn trivial new dialects of Lisp for fun, this is your ticket to ride.
Forget innovation, Arc's not even an acceptable modern Lisp! Hello,
MODULE SYSTEM?!?! You're telling me there's NO MODULE SYSTEM?!?!
AGAIN?!?! Did we learn nothing at all through 6 rounds of RxRS over
~20-odd years with Scheme?
Grrr....
Perhaps I'm being too harsh, but when you blast the world for years
with manifestos about how inadequate all programming languages are
besides Lisp, and yet how Lisp isn't even really suitable yet, but
wait --- you're going to save the day, everybody just hold your
breath until your shiny new version comes and solves all the world's
programming problems... when you do that, then you deliver this, you
deserve whatever abuse anybody wants to send your way.
-a
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