>From the fashion industry one... "Trained staff in a minority language are going to be rare. This does not necessarily make them more expensive (nobody else wants them), but it does make recruitment much harder and more uncertain. Alternatively you have to train all your existing people in the new language. And for Functional Languages its not just another syntax, its a whole new way of thinking."
Two marks against REBOL there. Still, he did suggest a road to popularity - find a niche and own it. What's a niche REBOL could create/take over? -- Carl Read. On Tuesday, 20-Novenber-2007 at 9:57:25 Ed O'Connor wrote, >A few interesting reads I stumbled upon recently: > >1. You Work in a Fashion Industry >"...if you want to introduce a language, you don't concentrate on >making it a good language, you try to persuade the herd of >programmers, PMs and tool vendors that your language is the Next Big >Thing. The important point here is not how much the language will do >for productivity, quality and cost, it is to create the perception >that everyone else thinks that this language will be the next big >thing. > >There are two ways to do this...." > >http://rubygarden.org/ruby/page/show/YouWorkInAFashionIndustry > >2. Interview with Zed Shaw, the author of Mongrel, the ruby webserver. >What I found most interesting is how motivated the community is, and >how they worked to fix some of ruby's problems with arrays and >threads. > >http://www.infoq.com/interviews/ruby-zed-shaw > >Regards, >Ed -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.
