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I think that objection is likely true of scheme. Scheme is like the Assembly language of lisps. To build it up to the level of usefulness requires a lot of whe

I think that objection is likely true of scheme. Scheme is like the Assembly language of lisps. To build it up to the level of usefulness requires a lot of wheel re-inventing, and those wheels are likely to be not quite standard. Clojure and Common Lisp are larger languages and don't really suffer this problem.

shakna 9y ago
That's not really the case for R6RS, and now R7RS Large. Both of those have huge swathes of libraries and make the language quite large.
kazinator 9y ago
However, mainstream machine languages have defined orders of evaluation and specified results.