[r6rs-discuss] academic leadership

[Chris Hanson]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Grant Rettke <grettke at acm.org> wrote:
>> Without additional involvement from non-academic programmers, that's likely to continue.
>
> How do industrial programmers get involved, though, when they have
> neither the language design experience nor the implementation
> expertise to provide sufficient substantive input, at least in the
> eyes of the experts, to the process?

Well, I can think of at least 4 people posting to this list who
qualify, including myself.  But my comment isn't so much about the
specifics as about the attitude -- that the academics are the obvious
leaders.  Academics have their own strengths and weaknesses, and are
"expert" in different areas than non-academics.  Let's not propagate
the meme that academic expertise is the only kind that matters.