From: Giles Bowkett <gilesb@...>
Date: 2006-10-06T08:22:31+09:00
Subject: Re: "Succinctness is Power", by Paul Graham

> I once had this little conversation with a programmer tha I respect a lot:
> He: "Does Ruby have closures?"
> Me: "Yes"
> He: "Does Ruby have continuations?"
> Me: "Yes"
> He: "So it's basically just Scheme, but with an uglier syntax."
>
> I had no reply.

You know, there's a great blog thingy somewhere, I forgot who but I
think it was by Mark-Jason Dominus, about how Lisp will never be big
because it has a mean, dysfunctional community with an axe to grind.
It's kind of related to Bruce Tate's thing that being a superior
language is not enough, you have to have market adoption as well.

Of course there are also good arguments out there against becoming
"mainstream" in the first place.

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Giles Bowkett
http://www.gilesgoatboy.org