Alexander Burger schrieb: > OK, I understand. > > The language is not useful or usable, and the "Community" (I count 70 > members in this list) is silent.
Oh oh ... Alex, your conclusion is not necessary true. If most are silent that has not to mean, they conclude with Henrik. At least me, if I do not like something, or I am feeling it is dead, I will unsubscribe. The lack of libraries may be a problem from time to time, but PicoLisp has also to offer a lot, like its DB with Pilog, its Web-Framework, its simplicity. Often people need a language that allow for quick and dirty development. So lacking a library could be a show-stopper for them, as they are not willing to spend time to develop what they need. They want to throw together basic components to build a new app they can use. Perhaps for them, PicoLisp is not an alternative. But if you want to develop a coherent, portable app, with storage backed up by a DB with an elegant query language (Pilog) that does not need much resources -- PicoLisp may count in! I am interested in PicoLisp as you know. I've tried to use it for my in-house project. Unfortunately I couldn't not, not cause by lacking any library, but as my co-workers do not know Lisp and are very reluctant to learn yet another language beside C++, Java and Ruby used for most of our tools. So this may be another reason -- PicoLisp is a Lisp. You know, that language with a lot of silly parentheses ... ;-) Anyway, happy new year and please keep up with your nice language. It is not mainstream, but it has its place!!! Ciao, chi. -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
