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Because it’s now based on « Chez Scheme » (https://scheme.com https://scheme.com).

• orsenthil 7y ago
  I meant, why was "that" scheme called "Chez" scheme?
  • pjmlp 7y ago
    All about it on "The development of Chez Scheme" paper, written on its twentieth anniversary. https://legacy.cs.indiana.edu/~dyb/pubs/hocs.pdf https://legacy.cs.indiana.edu/~dyb/pubs/hocs.pdf
    • catalogia 7y ago
      I don't see the name explained in that document. It does mention 'C-Scheme' and 'Z80 Scheme' so maybe Chez is a sort of interpolation of those?
      • onemoresoop 7y ago
        In French chez means "at the home of (used in imitation of French, often humorously)." This always rings this bell in my mind when I hear this word. An example: Je suis allé chez Steele et Sussman roughly translates to: I went to the Steele's and the Sussman's homes
    • cat199 7y ago
      ^ this paper is mind-expanding to see the huge evolution and depth of effort around performance optimization over years for this system
• chrisseaton 7y ago
  Is your comment a recursion or bootstrapping joke?