> On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:25:51PM +0200, Bart Lateur wrote:
> > There must be some reason why a language like Sather isn't more popular.
> > I think that iters are part of the problem.
>
> That smacks of the Politician's Syllogism:
> Something is wrong.
> This is something.
> Therefore this is wrong.
>
> I think the more immediate problem with Sather is that it's
> totally obscure.
> I'd never heard of it. I'd never read any articles about it. It has no
> publicity. If people haven't heard of it, it'll remain unpopular.
>
> Iters or no iters.
Naw, they simply haven't gotten into the rage of Perlbashing, which seems to
be how Python, PHP, and Ruby have made any headway. C# is going there too,
but Microsoft makes it too obvious (nobody of any dignified talent reads
about MS technology without a salt shaker handy.)
p
