Full name: Seth Alves Location: California
Affiliation: None. Contact details: [email protected], [email protected] Statement of interest: I use a variety of Schemes professionally and for hobby programming. I like Scheme's simple syntax and how easily code transformations can be accomplished, but I'm most impressed by its portability. Code written on a PC can be made to run on ARM microcontrollers, as javascript in browsers, etc. That said, making a program of any substance portable can be very challenging. My hope is that R7RS-small will make writing portable code easier and that libraries which work in multiple implementations will become more common. Vote: Yes. Rationale: R6RS defined a larger language than R5RS (which should improve code portability), but was also more difficult to implement fully. I like R7's approach of splitting the language into "small" and "large". I also think that iteration of the standard is important, even if we risk making parts of the language less good -- improvement is impossible without changes. _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
