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> lacks a large, vibrant community with mature libraries > too much variation among the various flavors of Scheme which fragments the community > lacks good l
by expeditious 17y ago
> lacks a large, vibrant community with mature libraries
> too much variation among the various flavors of Scheme which fragments the community
> lacks good language constructs for managing large software projects
It seems that those points are being recognized and worked on very seriously in R7RS. See http://www.scheme-reports.org/ http://www.scheme-reports.org/
> Instead of pouring a lot of effort into Scheme, let it stay an academic language.
Well, the "Little" Scheme (working group 1) should still fit that bill. And the "Big" Scheme (working group 2) is supposed to fix the above problems you mentioned.