But the claim was that a student could write a conformant Scheme implementation in 48 hours that beats Python. Clearly it’s possible for a student to write a Sc

But the claim was that a student could write a conformant Scheme implementation in 48 hours that beats Python. Clearly it’s possible for a student to write a Scheme that’s faster than Python, but is it a reasonably complete Scheme done in a single weekend? Even I, very much a non-computer scientist, could write a fast Scheme quickly if I could keep myself to a very small subset, so that’s not interesting to me.