Re: Scheme is too complicated

["Peter C. Norton" <spacey@inch.com>]

On Sun, Oct 25, 1998 at 11:04:07AM +0100, Sascha Ziemann wrote:
> Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com> writes:
> 
> | And finally, I think a PHP->Guile translator would be pretty easy. :)
> 
> PHP has support for all available databases.  Guile does not support
> any database.  That is the biggest problem for Guile as a Server
> Scripting Language.

Yep - it has support for databases that I couldn't even imagine putting on
the web - I mean, Paradox?  I don't think guile has to go that far.  Then
again, the interface has been written for php, so why not...

Anyway, Russ M. has a sybase interface for guile.  Now that Oracle for
linux is available I don't see any reason to not extend his work in that
direction.  Maybe now that guile-gtk works for me again, I can find some
time to do this.  If no-one else is already? 
 
> The reason why other languages like Perl or PHP are successfull is not
> their language but their libraries.

I don't think the two can be seperated that cleanly.  Languages and their
modules have to have a synergy.  Perl is very useful because the language
makes creating a module easy once it's learned.  Once made they're easy
even for the newest web novice to use - at least after 21 days, if the
book title is to be believed. 

I must admit - I wouldn't have much use for perl if it weren't for
mod_perl and CGI.pm.

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