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Advanced programming languages
- pmoriarty 10y agoFor me, Scheme's main advantages are its elegance, ease of programming, clarity, and power. This combination of attributes make programming hard things easy. Another advantage concerns the ease of implementing new language features. As a Scheme user, you don't have to convince the language authors to bless a language feature you're interested in and then wait for them to get around to implementing it. You can just do it yourself, using Scheme itself, and it's arguably much easier to do that in Scheme (and other Lisps) than in any other language. This ease has led to Scheme quite frequently and regularly absorbing interesting features from other languages. One other matter that should be clarified is that while there are some minimal and tiny Scheme implementations (especially those designed for embedded development), the modern, popular Schemes are full featured languages with extensive libraries, and the newer Scheme standards have been moving towards a more "batteries included" approach.