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Re: FOSDEM 2019
From: |
Christopher Lemmer Webber |
Subject: |
Re: FOSDEM 2019 |
Date: |
Tue, 05 Feb 2019 16:26:42 -0500 |
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mu4e 1.0; emacs 26.1 |
Arne Babenhauserheide writes:
> Mikael Djurfeldt <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> It was a great experience and joy for me to meet some of you at FOSDEM
>> 2019. Thank you all!
>
> Thank you, too!
>
>> Now a piece of advice.
>>
>> Everyone who works with Guile knows that it's crap and look with envy at
>> projects like Chez and Racket, right?
>
> I’ll ignore for a moment that this is a rhethoric method and answer
> directly: No, I don’t think that Guile is crap. It is actually really
> good, and while there are missing parts, I enjoy working in Guile more
> than I enjoy working in Python. Even when I use parentheses :-)
>
> The talk by Christopher Webber basically described the importance of
> shiny — all the bits other people already polished. A similar argument
> cuts for using Python, and even Java.
>
> This does not make it invalid: Chris is right that shiny is important;
> but it is not all-important, especially not in the long run. And
> different from many other projects, Guile takes the long run seriously.
Oops, I misquoted Arne as Janneke in my last email... my bad. :)
- Re: FOSDEM 2019, (continued)
- Re: FOSDEM 2019, Nala Ginrut, 2019/02/04
- Re: FOSDEM 2019, Christopher Lemmer Webber, 2019/02/06
- Re: FOSDEM 2019, Alex Sassmannshausen, 2019/02/06
- Re: FOSDEM 2019, Amirouche Boubekki, 2019/02/06
- Re: FOSDEM 2019, Amirouche Boubekki, 2019/02/06
- Re: FOSDEM 2019, Alex Sassmannshausen, 2019/02/06
- Re: FOSDEM 2019, Ricardo Wurmus, 2019/02/06
- Re: FOSDEM 2019, Alex Sassmannshausen, 2019/02/06
- Re: FOSDEM 2019, swedebugia, 2019/02/26
- Re: FOSDEM 2019, Arne Babenhauserheide, 2019/02/06
Re: FOSDEM 2019,
Christopher Lemmer Webber <=
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Re: FOSDEM 2019, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/02/04
Re: FOSDEM 2019, Matt Wette, 2019/02/05
Re: FOSDEM 2019, Nala Ginrut, 2019/02/05