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lol, I never thought about scheme/racket naming in this context. Is this an inside joke in the community or maybe even a an official take?
by galkk 3y ago
lol, I never thought about scheme/racket naming in this context.
Is this an inside joke in the community or maybe even a an official take?
- thequux 3y agoScheme was the third in a series of languages designed at the MIT AI lab; the first two were Planner and Conniver. The third was going to be called Schemer, but ITS only allowed 6-character filenames (because, encoded in sixbit, that fits in one machine word). Thus the pattern was established from the very beginning. Also consider that another widely-used scheme implementation is called Guile.