Grant Rettke scripsit: > On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 4:08 PM, John Cowan<[email protected]> wrote: > > Do you think that R5RS unmodified would garner 90% as Small Scheme > > today? I doubt it. > > Why?
Because of the existence of the aforementioned Minimalist fundamentalists, who want a Scheme core with seven predefined identifiers, nine at a pinch. Get to ten, and it's (in the words of the famous Jewish joke) "too busy". See http://tinyurl.com/m4hb7a at Google Books for the whole joke. -- John Cowan [email protected] http://ccil.org/~cowan Any sufficiently-complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. --Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming (rules 1-9 are unknown) _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
