[r6rs-discuss] voting process

[Abdulaziz Ghuloum]

On Nov 3, 2008, at 6:47 PM, Thomas Lord wrote:

> What do you expect to change?  What will another year of few people
> working on much of anything in or on Scheme bring about?  What will 10
> years of that bring?

I was commenting on your expectations, not mine.  You said:

On Nov 3, 2008, at 3:35 PM, Thomas Lord wrote:
> The effort to add a module system was premised,
> roughly speaking and informally attributing motive, to Steele's notion
> of a "growable" language and with faith that "if you build it they  
> will
> come."
>
> Well, it got built.  They didn't come.

This is pretty much a cargo-cult[*] fallacious reasoning.
Having a module system is necessary for sharing code and
building reusable software components.  It is however not
a sufficient reason for getting people to build such
components.

Not having a standard module system was an impediment,
yes, but that does not automatically guarantee that we'd
get any quality libraries once the impediment is removed.

I don't know what another year (or 10) will bring to the
table.  Things that I want I'm building as time and other
constraints permit; and others are doing the same.  It's
not reasonable to expect people to be "cranking" code at
astounding pace just because a standard document is out;
right?  There is far more to it than that.

Aziz,,,

[*] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult