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No, Racket is a separate language, though it grew out of a Scheme implementation (PLT Scheme) and still includes its predecessor.
by erikj 9y ago
No, Racket is a separate language, though it grew out of a Scheme implementation (PLT Scheme) and still includes its predecessor.
- brlewis 9y agoYes, but I think it continues in the general spirit of Scheme, despite things like immutable cons cells that make it not fully backward-compatible.
- erikj 9y agoWell, you can say that Scheme continues in the general spirit of MACLISP, yet we separate them.
- dragonwriter 9y agoI thought that PLT Scheme had actually diverged from Scheme (though it included an R5RS implementation) long before they decided to change to Racket the name based on that fact.