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From: Nils Kassube <n...@kassube.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: What's happening in the Lisp world today?
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 19:09:36 +0200
Organization: The Late Binding Company
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Michael Livshin <use...@cmm.kakpryg.net> writes:

> but that's exactly analogous to the "scripting language" community
> being deeply fragmented: Perl, Python, sh & Ruby are all scripting

The fragmentation matters because the Perl or Python communities alone
are larger than the Lisp family languages together. Let's say you want
to write a cross-platform GUI application: you can choose between
multiple free frameworks (with native widgets/without, etc) with lots
of documentation as a Python user. Or you want to build a web
application: choose between multiple good, more less well documented
frameworks (e.g. Zope, Twisted, Webware) each supported by a
relatively large community.