Re: Perl embedding: trial balloon
Geoffrey Furnish <furnish(a)actel.com> wrote:
I have to say that I am flatly floored by what I have read over the
last few hours.
To John: Keep the faith, and keep doing good work. There are lots of
people who want what you're doing. I suggest ignoring the attitude,
and focusing on the work rather than forking a new strain just because
some key people need to have their world views enlargened..
Thanks, I appreciate that.
I also appreciate and respect the fact that XEmacs has a healthy
immune system that has reacted with justifiable caution to my foreign
presence. It is no mystery why programmers defend their chosen
languages so ruthlessly. I suspect many on this list have programmed
in Lisp since before there was an Emacs Lisp, and the intrusion of
other languages stands to threaten their investment.
If the immune system rejects my offerings, so be it. I guess I'll
have no alternative but to continue with my forked variant or give up
entirely. That's just the marketplace of ideas working its magic.