> Well, resumable exceptions are not so great... I thought they are? > We really don't want them in Java (remember that Java is a language originally designed

> Well, resumable exceptions are not so great... I thought they are? > We really don't want them in Java (remember that Java is a language originally designed by Lispers). Who of the Oak team were Lispers? Not even Gosling has ever seen or used a competent Lisp implementation - he wrote a 'Mock' Lisp without lists ;-) for an Emacs written in C on Unix. One of his many projects. Stallman later implemented a slightly better Lisp using Goslings C code as a start. > I've used Racket (and PLT Scheme before it) quite a bit (I was a Schemer when Java barely even existed), and Guile None of them have especially interesting runtimes. Racket now gets a new runtime based on Chez Scheme from Cisco. Chez Scheme is actually great. You should have studied that. Well, source code is now available from Cisco. It has a nice AOT native compiler. > I started using Scheme in the mid-nineties. Unfortunately, I haven't seen many Scheme and Common Lisp users anywhere You were too late. SUN had its own Lisp offerings in the 80s. Like DEC/DIGITAL, IBM, Apple, HP, Apollo, Texas Instruments, Xerox, ...