Scheme is not for everyone. But getting more people to use it is going to mean people seeing what it offers over other languages. I do a fair amount of Python programming. Python code is fairly portable: my Mac comes with it installed and so I can send code to anyone with a Mac and it will probably run. Python also has a *huge* set of libraries. Writing extension code (in C) for Python sucks, though. And Python `lambda’ is weak.
And Python does not work well on tasks that Scheme excels at: tree structures, little-languages, list processing, etc. If you want more people to use Scheme/Guile you need to write applications that demonstrate it’s strengths over other languages. I know of nothing that beats Scheme macros for building your own language extensions: that capability is so awesome. And Scheme looks pretty promising to me for handling XML-based tree structures (e.g., SXML with foldts and friends). Matt
