One reason manpower is short...

One reason manpower is short...

Posted Aug 13, 2003 5:29 UTC (Wed) by rganesan (subscriber, #1182)
In reply to: One reason manpower is short... by Per_Bothner
Parent article: State of the GnuCash project

> It is weird how someone who has written "decent sized programs
> in C/C++/Java/Perl/Python" should have problems with Scheme.
> I don't understand this - Scheme is a very simple language
> - much simpler than Perl, certainly.

I didn't say I had problems with Scheme. I had taken a Lisp
Programming course for my under graduate degree and have done some
simple Emacs Lisp programming. I never did any serious programming
with Lisp/Scheme in my professional career though.

> It is also strange how Perl/Python are viewed as "mainstream" but
> Scheme is not, even though Scheme is much more mainstream
> when it comes to the history and development of
> programming languages.

I am fairly confident that's a view shared by a large number of developers. I am a professional software developer and in the three companies that I've worked in over the last 10 years, Perl is certainly more "mainstream" than Scheme. In other words, I haven't come across any scheme programmers among my colleagues. I can't say the same for Python though. Hardly anybody seems to be aware of Python at the companies I've worked, but it definitely has more traction than scheme.

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