Alex Martelli wrote: yes, if that was my only > choice, I'd much rather use small, simple Scheme than huge, complicated, > rich, powerful Common Lisp. ((But in this case I'm biased by early > experiences, since when I learned and used Lisp-ish languages there WAS > no Common Lisp, while Scheme was already there, although not quite the > same language level as today, I'm sure;-)).
Alas, today Scheme is not minimal at all. I mean, the document describing the standard is short, but real implementations are pretty rich. I am also surprised by your claim in this thread that Scheme macros are simpler than Common Lisp macros; perhaps, you are not familiar with syntax-case. BTW, there is still research going on on macros, for instance look at http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-72/srfi-72.html which is pretty nice. Just to bring some info in yet another useless usenet flamewar. Michele Simionato -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
