Brian Harvey scripsit:

> lambda.

Not a procedure.

> math-like numbers (= 3 3.0).

Even Fortran got that much right.

> call/cc, I guess.

Okay.

> linked lists as primary aggregation mechanism.

Some people not a million miles away from #scheme think they're
grotesquely obsolete.

> lexical scope.

Not a procedure.

> single namespace!

Not a procedure.

> hygienic macros, I guess.

Not a procedure.

Tell me, how do you justify in terms of jewel-like beauty the pair-
and list-related procedures in section 6.3.2?  Some are primitives,
the rest are -- whatever happened to be around.  Any or all of SRFI 1
(little or none of which was new even then) could have been in RnRS.
Yet they aren't.  Jewel-like beauty?  More like adhocracy.

-- 
We are lost, lost.  No name, no business, no Precious, nothing.  Only empty.
Only hungry: yes, we are hungry.  A few little fishes, nassty bony little
fishes, for a poor creature, and they say death.  So wise they are; so just,
so very just.  --Gollum        [email protected]  http://ccil.org/~cowan

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