Full name (required): Kevin A. Wortman Location (optional): Orange, California
Affiliation (optional): California State University, Fullerton Contact details (optional): [email protected], [email protected] Statement of interest (not required if you registered for the R6RS ratification or the 2009 Steering Committee election): I started learning Scheme in 1999. Since then Scheme has been the programming language I enjoy the most, and is my preferred language for prototyping and personal utilities. I have worked as a software developer, and am currently a university faculty member, but have been unable to make substantial use of Scheme in those roles. I would like to see Scheme become a more viable platform for research and large scale software development. Vote (required): yes Rationale (optional): I think the biggest obstacle to wider adoption of Scheme is a shortage of portable libraries. I expect the R7RS library system would go a long way toward facilitating the development of portable libraries. Bytevectors and the (scheme time) library are also welcome as they substantially widen the scope of what can be implemented efficiently in portable Scheme. If I had my druthers the small language would include a minimal interface to sockets, concurrency, and hierarchical file systems. Then the scope of functionality implementable in Scheme would include practically all of the 21st-century software landscape. But, I do not wish for the perfect to be the enemy of the good, so I support the incremental improvement R7RS represents.
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