mflatt answered some "why"s on the racket-dev list: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/racket-dev/2BV3ElyfF8Y/4RSd3XbECAAJ
On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 12:34 AM, Lehi Toskin <[email protected]> wrote: > I've read through a few README's in the racket7 repo and I can't find > anything specifically about *why* Racket is being implemented on top of > Chez Scheme, so I suppose I'll be asking here: > > Why the rewrite in the first place? Is it because C is ugly and yucky and > poopy? Why Chez Scheme and not, say, Chicken Scheme or GNU Guile? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
