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I concur, with sorrow. Scheme is such a nice language... I believe a standardised syntax to define compound data structures (aka defstruct) and a standardised

by gkya 13y ago

I concur, with sorrow. Scheme is such a nice language... I believe a standardised syntax to define compound data structures (aka defstruct) and a standardised C FFI would make Scheme language usable. If these existed, I'd implement a Leiningen-ish tool and a couple libraries for Scheme, to get going with web development. (There is one more problem I have with Scheme, which is the name. It sounds identical to a vulgar Turkish word for "my penis"; resulting in awkward situations when talking about the language in Turkey, where I live. :)) edit: - the Turkish word + a vulgar Turkish word

reirob 13y ago
a very potent language :D
- gkya 13y ago
  I can only call it Lisp in public. Otherwise, Turkish translation of "I'm using Scheme to build this application" sounds identical to "I'm using my penis to build this application". I said the sentence at lunch in my last job, and boy, albeit we're all devs, it was awkward.
  - pmelendez 13y ago
    I tried to search it out of curiosity but google wasn't helpful. Could you please tell us how to spelled or point to a reference?
    - gkya 13y ago
      The Turkish word? Sure, it is spelled as sikim, where sik [1] is the (quite vulgar) word for penis (noun, when used as verb, means to f.ck), and (i)m is the possessive affix [2]. The letter i is always pronounced like the first i in victim, and the word is pronounced like si-kim. The perception of the phrase is similar to that of my cock, rather than my penis. One might think that the similarity is so vague, that wouldn't pose a problem to speak it out loud. I, personally never recognised the similarity, until I spoke the word out loud. [1] http://www.turkishdictionary.net/?word=sik http://www.turkishdictionary.net/?word=sik [2] Turkish is slightly similar to Latin. edit: add a newline between footnotes
  - srl 13y ago
    The language/proof assistant coq has similar problems (damn frenchies getting their revenge).
Flow 13y ago
:-) Do you say Sch-eme or Sk-eme? I think both are ok, but please correct me if you are a native english speaker.
- gkya 13y ago
  Sk-eme, as in school, or scam, not as in schweppes, or Schrödinger. I'm not a native speaker, yet quite practised. And Sk-eme is how most pronounce the name, as far as I've seen. You can't know how much I wish it was called plan, plot or something :)
  - e12e 13y ago
    I'm pretty sure only /skiːm/ (as in skill) is correct.
dmytrish 13y ago
We need a web-service that checks any word for any similarities to obscene words in languages of the worlds! Though I suspect that a lot of words may be such words.
muhuk 13y ago
Are you sure you pronounce Scheme correctly? Click the speaker button on the bottom left of the text box to listen: http://translate.google.com/#en/fr/scheme http://translate.google.com/#en/fr/scheme http://translate.google.com/#tr/fr/sikim http://translate.google.com/#tr/fr/sikim They have distinctly different pronunciations.
ANTSANTS 13y ago
>I believe a standardised syntax to define compound data structures (aka defstruct)... would make Scheme language usable. Isn't this what SFRI 9 is? http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-9/srfi-9.html http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-9/srfi-9.html

by gkya 13y ago

reirob 13y ago

a very potent language :D

gkya 13y ago
I can only call it Lisp in public. Otherwise, Turkish translation of "I'm using Scheme to build this application" sounds identical to "I'm using my penis to build this application". I said the sentence at lunch in my last job, and boy, albeit we're all devs, it was awkward.
- pmelendez 13y ago
  I tried to search it out of curiosity but google wasn't helpful. Could you please tell us how to spelled or point to a reference?
  - gkya 13y ago
    The Turkish word? Sure, it is spelled as sikim, where sik [1] is the (quite vulgar) word for penis (noun, when used as verb, means to f.ck), and (i)m is the possessive affix [2]. The letter i is always pronounced like the first i in victim, and the word is pronounced like si-kim. The perception of the phrase is similar to that of my cock, rather than my penis. One might think that the similarity is so vague, that wouldn't pose a problem to speak it out loud. I, personally never recognised the similarity, until I spoke the word out loud. [1] http://www.turkishdictionary.net/?word=sik http://www.turkishdictionary.net/?word=sik [2] Turkish is slightly similar to Latin. edit: add a newline between footnotes
- srl 13y ago
  The language/proof assistant coq has similar problems (damn frenchies getting their revenge).

Flow 13y ago

:-) Do you say Sch-eme or Sk-eme? I think both are ok, but please correct me if you are a native english speaker.

gkya 13y ago
Sk-eme, as in school, or scam, not as in schweppes, or Schrödinger. I'm not a native speaker, yet quite practised. And Sk-eme is how most pronounce the name, as far as I've seen. You can't know how much I wish it was called plan, plot or something :)
- e12e 13y ago
  I'm pretty sure only /skiːm/ (as in skill) is correct.

dmytrish 13y ago

We need a web-service that checks any word for any similarities to obscene words in languages of the worlds! Though I suspect that a lot of words may be such words.

muhuk 13y ago

Are you sure you pronounce Scheme correctly? Click the speaker button on the bottom left of the text box to listen: http://translate.google.com/#en/fr/scheme http://translate.google.com/#en/fr/scheme http://translate.google.com/#tr/fr/sikim http://translate.google.com/#tr/fr/sikim They have distinctly different pronunciations.

ANTSANTS 13y ago

>I believe a standardised syntax to define compound data structures (aka defstruct)... would make Scheme language usable. Isn't this what SFRI 9 is? http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-9/srfi-9.html http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-9/srfi-9.html