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Honest question as someone who came to Lisp via Racket seven years ago and has never touched Scheme: why is Scheme so great that any deviation from it is undesi

• fiddlerwoaroof 4y ago
  There are advantages to programming to a language specification and only writing a minimal amount of implementation-specific code. For one thing it makes the presuppositions of your program more explicit than if you’re writing in a language where the sole implementation is the specification. However, scheme has traditionally focused on a minimal standard (partly as a reaction to Common Lisp) and this has made “standard only” scheme less practical than the equivalent in Common Lisp or C/C++