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Scheme is geared towards two things: research and teaching. It's a lingua franca for demonstrating implementations of new CS concepts in ways that members of th

by rscho 4y ago

Scheme is geared towards two things: research and teaching. It's a lingua franca for demonstrating implementations of new CS concepts in ways that members of the community understand. Being easy to implement from scratch is a must for both uses cases. Being a less imperative language also makes Scheme closer to the math.

yyyk2 4y ago
Is it really? I haven't read many papers where new algorithms or techniques were demonstrated using Scheme. > Being easy to implement from scratch is a must for both uses cases. If you are teaching how to write a compiler or an interpreter, yes. Otherwise I would have to disagree.
- rscho 4y ago
  Ok, I shouldn't have said 'algorithm'. Let's restrict that to 'untyped programming language theory'.