Full name: Alex Sandro Queiroz e Silva Location: St. Gallen, Switzerland
Vote: YES Statement of interest: I have discovered Scheme about eight years ago. It changed profoundly the way I write and think about software in a general way. It opened intellectual doors for the best computer science books I have ever read used Scheme as working language. Since then I have written software for myself and sold software written in Scheme. I was the first person to release an iOS app written mostly in Scheme. I have also my share of unfinished Scheme interpreters, compilers and virtual machines. Rationale: The R7RS report is a very good continuation to R5RS, while absorbing some good ideas from R6RS along the way. It defines an elegant, useful and expressive language, with special mention to bytevectors, string ports, libraries and strutured user-defined types. I believe this is what the Scheme community wanted most to move forward. It will allow for better code sharing and community cohesion than ever before. Scheme deserves more recognition outside of its current community. But for that to become a reality, the Scheme community must create applications, tools and libraries that showcase the power of Scheme. Currently, languages that IMHO are less expressive and less elegant get the most attention because of "killer applications" that are actually the combined work of several individuals of those communities. United, we can do better. -- -alex http://unendli.ch/ _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
