> On Wednesday 07 January 2009 09:39:06 Sam Steingold wrote: >> Bruno Haible wrote: >> > If gnulib-tool was to be rewritten in another programming language >> than >> > shell + sed, what would be the good choices? >> >> a popularity contest is not the way to choose a language. >> >> and why aren't you even considering lisp? >> clisp comes with all linux distributions. >> every decent CS program provides at least some lisp exposure, so it is >> not >> completely unfamiliar to most people. >> things like perl/python/ruby, defined by their unique implementations, >> enforce the "throwaway code" approach. > > lisp interpreters are far from common, and no one does real work in lisp. > CS > students get enough lisp exposure to make them realize they dont ever want > to > touch it again.
Lisp is quite used in the GNU project. A lot of GNU developers are hacking Lisp in a daily basis while using Emacs. Also, our "official" extension language (guile/scheme) is also a Lisp dialect. In the GNU community Lisp is not considered as a tale to scare children :)
