Hi, 2009/3/2 Mitchell Wand <w...@ccs.neu.edu>: > I am pleased to officially announce the results of the election for the > Scheme Language Steering Committee.
Thanks to all who voted. I'm not familiar with the work of the steering committee, and so abstained; however, as a scheme user, I am very concerned about its status and future and general social acceptance. I interact daily with Java programmers and Python users, and work on a project whose components are variously written not only in guile, but also perl, C, C++, SQL, and of course python, ruby and java. Many people I interact with do not have a clear idea of what scheme/lisp *is*; and for some reason there's a slight negative connotation associated with lisp .. possibly fear; I cannot gauge the core problem. However, these folks do affect the decision-making process, and push the project in various directions. Thus, as a scheme user, it is vital for me that scheme (guile) have a widespread, positive perception and acceptance. Perception is not enough: I'd like to see the actual fruits: a large selection of libraries; library repositories analogous to CPAN; debugging, tracing and performance-tuning tools, credible integration with other popular technologies, and so on. Aside from a focus on the core language, stuff like this is what's needed to make Scheme vibrant; I'd like to see it happen. --linas
