Sometimes the topic of how to spread NewLisp to wider audiences floats up in the discussions. To my surprise I noticed that NewLisp is not advertised on Freshmeat ( www.freshmeat.net )(!!) - which is THE MAJOR depository or at least the place where EVERYTHING gets announced and noticed
Shouldn't (we/the author) correct this glaring omission, and present it there with a blurb that says something to the effect of
- -- tiny (less than 250k)
-- a standalone executable, no need for a "systemwide installation"
-- ability to create as if a standalone executable which is roughly (250k + your script size)
-- speed on par with the likes of perl/...
-- ability to work with C libraries directly from the scripting code
-- virtually all APIs one needs for sysadmin work, web scripting, general purpose scripting, ...
-- tiny size plus networking plus its standaloneness allow unusual applications, such as running in dozens of copies on the same machine or multiple copies running on many machines across the network, where all that is needed for this setup is copying 250k a few times.
-- almost perfectly done modern documentation with cookbooks, a drastic difference from the old-fashioned bureaucratic formal ugliness which demands internat re-translation to practical terms and slows an aspiring programmer tremendously
-- cross-platform, run it whever you wish
-- and that it is a REAL and viable LISP/SCHEME in all programming aspects