Re: choice of implementation language

[Jose E. Marchesi]

> On Wednesday 07 January 2009 09:39:06 Sam Steingold wrote:
>> Bruno Haible wrote:
>> > If gnulib-tool was to be rewritten in another programming language
>> than
>> > shell + sed, what would be the good choices?
>>
>> a popularity contest is not the way to choose a language.
>>
>> and why aren't you even considering lisp?
>> clisp comes with all linux distributions.
>> every decent CS program provides at least some lisp exposure, so it is
>> not
>> completely unfamiliar to most people.
>> things like perl/python/ruby, defined by their unique implementations,
>> enforce the "throwaway code" approach.
>
> lisp interpreters are far from common, and no one does real work in lisp.
> CS
> students get enough lisp exposure to make them realize they dont ever want
> to
> touch it again.

Lisp is quite used in the GNU project. A lot of GNU developers are hacking
Lisp in a daily basis while using Emacs. Also, our "official" extension
language (guile/scheme) is also a Lisp dialect.

In the GNU community Lisp is not considered as a tale to scare children :)