On Sep 9, 2009, at 11:59 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote:

> And the result is that "Scheme" *is* sitting around, looking beautiful
> to people who like the 70s, and justifying every student that ever
> complained about learning a language that has no connection to the
> real world.


... and also justifying every complaint of Common Lisp programmers  
about Scheme. The current use of CPS transformers in Common Lisp web  
application frameworks *ought* to be taken as a damning indictment (of  
what or whom, I'm not quite sure). Programmers are searching for  
Scheme and reinventing it on top of Common Lisp. Why is that?
--
Brian Mastenbrook
[email protected]
http://brian.mastenbrook.net/


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