Re: [Gimp-developer] Blog article about Scheme usage in GIMP
2011/9/5 Ofnuts ofn...@laposte.net: On 09/05/2011 07:57 PM, Martin Nordholts wrote: If we look at what programming languages that are popular [1], we can see that the vast majority of languages in use today have a syntax where 1 + 1 is written 1 + 1 and not (+ 1 1). If we want to have a main scripting language that as many as possible can use with as little effort as possible, Scheme is simply not an alternative. For most programmers, Scheme is an odd language. In the long term I think it is inevitable that we need to replace Scheme with something that has a syntax that is more mainstream. I wholeheartedly agree with that. However, doing the switch is a huge task and we have other things that are more important to work on, so I don't see this happening any time soon. Haven't we got a quite nice Python interface already? Yes we do, which is nice, but Scheme still has higher status. In particular, the format of gimprc files etc are Scheme-ish, and the default batch interpreter is Script-Fu. / Martin -- My GIMP Blog: http://www.chromecode.com/ Single-window mode feature complete ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] Blog article about Scheme usage in GIMP
On 09/06/2011 10:55 AM, Martin Nordholts wrote: Haven't we got a quite nice Python interface already? Yes we do, which is nice, but Scheme still has higher status. In particular, the format of gimprc files etc are Scheme-ish, and the default batch interpreter is Script-Fu. The format of the gimprc files is not very relevant for scripts? As to the default batch interpreter, if/when python plugins have sufficient appeal, people add python support (when they didn't get it out of the box). ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] Blog article about Scheme usage in GIMP
2011/9/5 Michael Schumacher schum...@gmx.de: I'd like to comment on the blog post, or see comments by someone else, but I'd like to clarify our plans for Scheme in GIMP first. If we look at what programming languages that are popular [1], we can see that the vast majority of languages in use today have a syntax where 1 + 1 is written 1 + 1 and not (+ 1 1). If we want to have a main scripting language that as many as possible can use with as little effort as possible, Scheme is simply not an alternative. For most programmers, Scheme is an odd language. In the long term I think it is inevitable that we need to replace Scheme with something that has a syntax that is more mainstream. However, doing the switch is a huge task and we have other things that are more important to work on, so I don't see this happening any time soon. / Martin [1] http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html -- My GIMP Blog: http://www.chromecode.com/ Single-window mode feature complete ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] Blog article about Scheme usage in GIMP
On 09/05/2011 07:57 PM, Martin Nordholts wrote: If we look at what programming languages that are popular [1], we can see that the vast majority of languages in use today have a syntax where 1 + 1 is written 1 + 1 and not (+ 1 1). If we want to have a main scripting language that as many as possible can use with as little effort as possible, Scheme is simply not an alternative. For most programmers, Scheme is an odd language. In the long term I think it is inevitable that we need to replace Scheme with something that has a syntax that is more mainstream. I wholeheartedly agree with that. However, doing the switch is a huge task and we have other things that are more important to work on, so I don't see this happening any time soon. Haven't we got a quite nice Python interface already? ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
