mystilleef wrote: > > People only contribute to things they understand and appreciate. More > people would be writing Lisp libraries if it was worthwhile. > Apparently, it doesn't seem to be. A few years ago, I tried to write an > editor is Scheme. The experience was appalling. I was able to write a > fully functional prototype editor in less than a week in Python. > Shockingly, at the time, I had no experience in Python. Guess which > community I was inclined to contribute to afterwards. I hear stories > similar to mine time and again, yet the Lisp community won't take heed. > They'd rather squeal about the superiority of macros and whine about > their frustrations in Python news groups. >
Hmm.. Here is my first prototype in Lisp. It took 20 seconds to write. (defun display-editor () (capi:contain (make-instance 'capi:editor-pane))) CL-USER 1 > (display-editor) #<CAPI:EDITOR-PANE 2069F40C> CL-USER 2 > W -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
