Re: How to make GNU Guile more successful

[David Kastrup]

Alejandro Sanchez <address@hidden> writes:

> Scheme on the other hand is weird; weird in a good way, but still
> weird. For me the reason for picking up Scheme was working my way
> through SICP, but even before that I had heard of the Lisp
> family. Every time I tried to find out what the fuss was about Lisp
> all I could find was nebulous concepts like “it’s a programmable
> programming language” without explaining what that even meant and why
> I would ever want to use it.
>
> Of course once I got over the weird parentheses and I understood why
> they are actually a beneficial aspect I liked it.

Everything falls into place once you understand that Scheme does not
offer a programming language as user interface.  Instead, you directly
write down the parse trees in Scheme's compact list representation.

That's not exactly readable but makes structure-preserving code
manipulation a breeze.

-- 
David Kastrup