Sam TH scripsit: > Certainly no other language has Scheme's exact constellation of > features.
Yes, but a constellation of features isn't usually a sweet spot. > But Scheme is missing some features that other languages > have, too - a compact syntax, Not sure what you mean by this. Even without macros, Scheme's syntax is much more compact than any language I can think of (all right, maybe Arc's (let x (foo) y (bar) (baz x y)) is just a hair more so). > a big batteries-included library (even though I use PLT Scheme, Python > has a bigger library), a non-dysfunctional community, I think these two go together. > sympathetic ICFP program committees. Scheme is the Rodney Dangerfield of languages: no respect from the FP community, the OOP community, or the imperative community, even though it actually does all those things well. -- Man has no body distinct from his soul, John Cowan for that called body is a portion of the soul [email protected] discerned by the five senses, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan the chief inlets of the soul in this age. --William Blake _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
