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Wow, the Scheme people had also invented time travel when they invented Scheme in 1975. They anticipated the Symbolics people "overdesiging" the LISP language w
by lispm 3y ago
Wow, the Scheme people had also invented time travel when they invented Scheme in 1975. They anticipated the Symbolics people "overdesiging" the LISP language when they started the company in 1980.
Then the Scheme people started to overdesign their language in reaction to the LISP people, since Scheme lacked even simple things like error handling.
See https://srfi.schemers.org https://srfi.schemers.org , https://www.r6rs.org https://www.r6rs.org , https://racket-lang.org https://racket-lang.org
- Animats 3y agoYes, I had the early history of LISP wrong. There were at least three major LISP factions in the 1980s, as LISP use expanded outside of the tiny AI community of the 1970s. Much controversy. All over now-dead issues.