[q-lang-users] Re: Newbie questions and comments

[Greg B. <Gre...@sl...>]

Albert Graef wrote:
 
>Matt Gushee wrote:
>>  * So why isn"t Q better known?
> 
> Good question. Well, maybe I don"t advertise it enough. This year will
> be the first time that I actually present Q at an international
> conference. You see, for a long time Q has just been one of my "hobby
> projects", and it has only been "out there" on SourceForge for about
> one year. But I guess that the most prominent factor is that
> functional languages are still perceived as something fairly exotic,
> and many programmers can"t easily wrap their head around this way of
> programming.  It just takes time I guess.

   For more exposure, you could always try to get Q included in "The
Great Computer Language Shootout"...

    http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/


Greg Buchholz