Re: [Chicken-hackers] why Chicken?

[Arto Bendiken]

On 2/1/07, felix winkelmann <address@hidden> wrote:
> I don't know "why Chicken", I can only judge for myself - its the "road of
> least suckage" for me (which should tell you something about how incredibly
> bad todays software is. Or yesterdays. We are still in the stone age. No, we are
> million years before that).

Incidentally, the present discussion vividly reminds me of an essay by
Steve Yegge that I read some days back:

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/01/pinocchio-problem.html

Yegge touches upon Scheme and Lisp multiple times while contemplating
the general suckage of software and the factors which help some
software suck less. Chicken would certainly seem to have all of the
desirable traits Yegge enumerates, with the exception of the currently
missing killer app.

Before he gets all tangled up in the metaphysics of software, later on
in the essay, the material is spot on for the discussion at hand.
Worth a read if you have a minute.

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