Re: Scheme is too complicated

[Scott Goehring <scott@poverty.bloomington.in.us>]

"Jim" == Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com> writes:

Jim> This is another interesting point.  Whenever you hear someone
Jim> say, "We don't need a full language here, it's just a
Jim> configuration script", you want to get really suspicious.
Jim> History is littered with examples of little config languages
Jim> (repeat after me: "We don't need anything too complicated") that
Jim> go awry.

Amen.  GIMP's configuration parser (and batch mode) would be so much
simpler if we just imported guile and did it that way.  I think the
main objections to doing so are the ones I expressed a few messages
back: stability, portability, speed, and size.