Re: I resign as Guile maintainer

[Lalo Martins <lalo at webcom dot com>]

On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 06:34:22PM -0800, Michael Vanier wrote:
> 
> This hits the nail right on the head.  Time and again I've wanted to learn
> to use guile for routine scripting jobs, and I'm always foiled by the lack
> of documentation.  If it isn't documented, it's almost as bad as if it
> isn't there.  I always compare guile to python (the scripting language I
> use most).  Although I believe strongly that guile will *eventually* be
> much better than python because scheme avoids many language-related
> problems that python/perl/tcl have, at least with python I could download
> and install the language, read a very good tutorial, have a language
> reference in emacs info format and HTML, and get simple scripts running
> almost immediately.  Other major priorities IMO include stabilizing the
> module system and GOOPS and getting some kind of reasonable regexp support.

I agree. IMHO the two top strongest points of Python as it
stands currently:

1: good documentation.
2: libraries to do almost anything you can think of.

Ditto for Perl, except that Python has a good tutorial (and is
easy to learn), while to learn Perl you need to buy a book.

Hit these two nails and we have a good tool.

(Of course we need a better module system and GOOPS to make
these easier too.)

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