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Here's the first sentence of the spec of the Scheme programming language: "Programming languages should be designed not by piling feature on top of feature, bu

Here's the first sentence of the spec of the Scheme programming language: "Programming languages should be designed not by piling feature on top of feature, but by removing the weaknesses and restrictions that make additional features appear necessary."

goatlover 8y ago
It's interesting how Lisp languages get criticized for lack of maintainable because of their power to let you essentially add new features, but then every popular modern language with the exception of Go piles on new features over time.
- junke 8y ago
  Go is still relatively young.
kazinator 8y ago
That grand statement is made possible by banishing needed Scheme features into numerous SRFI documents, and into implementations.