[axlprose]

> People who think otherwise probably don’t understand why people like javascript and python and will never write any product that catches on.

Ironically, this has been posted on a popular site written in a dialect of scheme:

http://arclanguage.org/

https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki

[meltedcapacitor]

Where is the irony? HN does not expose scheme to the user.

Don't think the parent was saying that it's impossible to write a good program in scheme/lisp, more that scheme as user interface for a software system is a hard sell... which seems anecdotally true.

[baby]

how is this ironic? HN was written by one person, and nobody needs to care what language they used to make it work.