Brandon J. Van Every <SeaFuncSpam@gmail.com> wrote:
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| I'm certainly not going to "upgrade" my language implementation choice
| every 3 years, as your analogy would seem to imply.  I do not believe
| in churn, whether Microsoft's churn or from other sources.
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Interesting. That "churn" [plus the then-lack of a native compiler]
was a significant factor in my switch from PLT Scheme to Common Lisp
circa 2000. The PLT was cranking out new (and sometimes incompatible!)
versions faster than I could keep up!  ;-}  ;-}

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| It took me 2 years of checking languages out to settle on Chicken
| Scheme.  Not interested in switching gears until it fails me.
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I stuck with PLT Scheme for ~8-10 years, then switched to Common Lisp[1]
and having been happily using it for the last 4-6 years. [There was a
fairly-long period of overlap/transition.] As you say, I'm not interested
in switching gears again unless/until CL fails me.

The positive attributes of long-term stability in one's tools are
often underrated...


-Rob

[1] CMUCL, to be precise, but most of what I do with CL is portable,
    and I try to remember to mark the CMUCL-specific bits with #+(CMU),
    so if I had to move to SBCL or one of the commercial implementations
    the transition would be pretty easy. But to quote you again, I'm not
    interested in switching gears unless/until CMUCL fails me.

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