Brian Mastenbrook scripsit: > Can you explain what this "jewel" language is? I haven't been able to > find anything by that name, but perhaps I'm missing something. When I > search on Google for `jewel programming language', I find a result for > "Oberon – The Overlooked Jewel", but Oberon certainly isn't the > language you're describing.
Assuming you're being serious, it comes from the description of Scheme as jewel-like: precious, hard, in some sense discovered rather than invented. -- John Cowan [email protected] http://ccil.org/~cowan "The exception proves the rule." Dimbulbs think: "Your counterexample proves my theory." Latin students think "'Probat' means 'tests': the exception puts the rule to the proof." But legal historians know it means "Evidence for an exception is evidence of the existence of a rule in cases not excepted from." _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
