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> "guile" and "scheme" are close concepts A tradition continued with "racket" and "gambit".

by catalogia 7y ago

DonHopkins 7y ago
Scheme was inspired by Drew McDermott and Sussman's 1972 Conniver. Sussman and Hewitt also worked on Muddle (MDL), the implementation language of Zork! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Scheme_programming_language#Carl_Hewitt,_the_Actor_model,_and_the_birth_of_Scheme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Scheme_programm... >In 1971 Sussman, Drew McDermott, and Eugene Charniak had developed a system called Micro-Planner which was a partial and somewhat unsatisfactory implementation of Carl Hewitt's ambitious Planner project. Sussman and Hewitt worked together along with others on Muddle, later renamed MDL, an extended Lisp which formed a component of Hewitt's project. Drew McDermott, and Sussman in 1972 developed the Lisp-based language Conniver, which revised the use of automatic backtracking in Planner which they thought was unproductive. Hewitt was dubious that the "hairy control structure" in Conniver was a solution to the problems with Planner. Pat Hayes remarked: "Their [Sussman and McDermott] solution, to give the user access to the implementation primitives of Planner, is however, something of a retrograde step (what are Conniver's semantics?)" Simplicity through accident: >25 years later, in 1998, Sussman and Steele reflected that the minimalism of Scheme was not a conscious design goal, but rather the unintended outcome of the design process. "We were actually trying to build something complicated and discovered, serendipitously, that we had accidentally designed something that met all our goals but was much simpler than we had intended... we realized that the lambda calculus—a small, simple formalism—could serve as the core of a powerful and expressive programming language."

3 ms·

> "guile" and "scheme" are close concepts A tradition continued with "racket" and "gambit".

by catalogia 7y ago

> "guile" and "scheme" are close concepts A tradition continued with "racket" and "gambit".

DonHopkins 7y ago
Scheme was inspired by Drew McDermott and Sussman's 1972 Conniver. Sussman and Hewitt also worked on Muddle (MDL), the implementation language of Zork! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Scheme_programming_language#Carl_Hewitt,_the_Actor_model,_and_the_birth_of_Scheme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Scheme_programm... >In 1971 Sussman, Drew McDermott, and Eugene Charniak had developed a system called Micro-Planner which was a partial and somewhat unsatisfactory implementation of Carl Hewitt's ambitious Planner project. Sussman and Hewitt worked together along with others on Muddle, later renamed MDL, an extended Lisp which formed a component of Hewitt's project. Drew McDermott, and Sussman in 1972 developed the Lisp-based language Conniver, which revised the use of automatic backtracking in Planner which they thought was unproductive. Hewitt was dubious that the "hairy control structure" in Conniver was a solution to the problems with Planner. Pat Hayes remarked: "Their [Sussman and McDermott] solution, to give the user access to the implementation primitives of Planner, is however, something of a retrograde step (what are Conniver's semantics?)" Simplicity through accident: >25 years later, in 1998, Sussman and Steele reflected that the minimalism of Scheme was not a conscious design goal, but rather the unintended outcome of the design process. "We were actually trying to build something complicated and discovered, serendipitously, that we had accidentally designed something that met all our goals but was much simpler than we had intended... we realized that the lambda calculus—a small, simple formalism—could serve as the core of a powerful and expressive programming language."