Re: Appreciation / Financial support

[Matthew Collett]

On 30/05/2012, at 9:10 pm, David Kastrup wrote:

>  Lua with "separate statements with
> semicolon or newline or space, I don't care" is nicer, but it is
> procedural, not functional, 

And right there is an excellent reason to prefer it to Scheme.  There are some 
people who really like functional programming, but for most people functional 
programming is arcane and confusing, and procedural far more natural.  To tempt 
ordinary users to dip their toe into scripting, a procedural language is the 
way to go.

Best wishes,
Matthew

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