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>The ideological split emerged during the great dialectical conflict of the early 1990s within the Scheme community, dividing revolutionaries who insisted on la
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>The ideological split emerged during the great dialectical conflict of the early 1990s within the Scheme community, dividing revolutionaries who insisted on large, modular Scheme codebases ("Permanent Modular Revolution") and reactionaries who championed the purity of "Scheme in One File." The modularist vanguard, led by Comrade Matthias Felleisen of the Racket Politburo, argued that true dialectical progress required collective libraries and communal code sharing across multiple modules.
> Opposing them, minimalist cadre under the austere guidance of Aubrey Jaffer maintained that genuine Scheme purity could only be realized through strict, isolated, single-file autarky, uncompromised by external dependencies or revisionist imports. This schism permanently fractured Scheme consciousness, decisively expelling modular heresy from orthodox minimalist implementations.