On 9 apr. 2013, at 10:46, Thorsten Jolitz <tjol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 42 147 <aeus...@gmail.com> writes: > >> This might be considered off-topic. > > Maybe not? I know of a fantastic Lisp dialect and > web/database programming-environment out there > > ,------------------------------------ > | PicoLisp > | http://picolisp.com/5000/!wiki?home > `------------------------------------ > > that suffers exactly from the rather low conversion rate of people to > it, which is kind of hard to explain given its quality. > > But maybe Paul Graham is right in > http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html, at least with regards to > programming languages: > > ,------------------------------------------------------------------------- > | A friend of mine once told an eminent operating systems expert that he > | wanted to design a really good programming language. The expert told him > | that it would be a waste of time, that programming languages don't > | become popular or unpopular based on their merits, and so no matter how > | good his language was, no one would use it. At least, that was what had > | happened to the language he had designed. > `------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > And just like I try to spell the word about amazing PicoLisp with this > email, I wrote an Org-mode article in the student magazine of my former > German distance university with the title > > ,------------------------------------------------------ > | Self-organization with Org-mode for distance students > `------------------------------------------------------ I would be interested to read this article. Can you make it available? - Carsten > > (in German) > > Its in > > ,------------------------------------------- > | "SprachRohr"-Ausgabe 04/2012 FernUni Hagen > `------------------------------------------- > > and the cover can be seen here: > http://www.fernstudis.de/node/1203 > > unfortunately only the cover, since download is restricted to > immatriculated students, but I reached some 50-60k readers with this > article and recieved very positive feedback, I cite from an anonymous > fellow distance student: > > ,---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > | [...] ich gehöre normalerweise nicht zu den Leserbriefschreibern, aber hier > | muss ich einfach mal ein ganz großes Lob loswerden: Vielen Dank für den > | Artikel über Emacs Org-Mode - der erste Artikel [...] der mich wirklich > | weiterbringt und ganz sehr zum "Weiterforschen" anregt. Org-Mode scheint > | genau das Werkzeug zu sein, nach dem ich lange gesucht habe. > `---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > (in English more or less: "normally I don't write reader comments, but > Org-mode seems exactly the tool I was looking for and I feel very > motivated to learn more about it after reading your article") > > So maybe there are ways to reach more people with less effort than in > one-to-one conversion talks? Although, even with 50k readers, I will of > course never know if I really achieved a single conversion. > > -- > cheers, > Thorsten > >
