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Thoughts On The Scheme Standardization Effort

• pjonesdotca 17y ago
  "The emphasis being, of course, that even a complete implementation of Scheme should remain as compact as possible." I don't know. I like that fact that Scheme forces me to create everything. (R5RS) The end result is that I end up thinking long and hard before I write my first parenthesis. This is radically different from my Ruby approach which has a tendency to be "jot down as many functions and then find some way to organise them into a class". My Ruby approach is probably not "best practices" but sometimes, as I learned in screenwriting class, you have to actually put something on the screen to start, otherwise you end up with...a blank screen. Seriously, if I wanted modules or a larger ecosystem for my code I would have options to select such as PLT or Kawa. I guess I'm still muddled about this whole agenda on a "Big" vs "small" Scheme.