2009/9/8 Shiro Kawai <[email protected]> > > The reason I think it important to focus on minimal set is > that the problem space is open. Today's daily programming > tasks may be obsolete, maybe not tomorrow, but in some years. > To follow the moving target of the hot tasks in each period, > the "standard" is too heavy. When a new paradigm appears, > you don't want to wait for Scheme standard to adopt it, > but you want solid building blocks in the standard that can > be used *today* to write code in the new paradigm. Python > programmers had to wait a new version of the language to > use lazy generators. Scheme programmers can make it by > themselves using call/cc. That kind of flexibility is > what I expect in Scheme. > This is an extremely cogent explanation of why getting Scheme to support metacircular compilers, and not just interpreters, is important. Much better than anything I've been able to express.
Lynn
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