Reminds me of the 2009 Scheme Steering Committee Position Statement, they stated (correctly, imo) "the Scheme community has rarely missed an opportunity to miss

Reminds me of the 2009 Scheme Steering Committee Position Statement, they stated (correctly, imo) "the Scheme community has rarely missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity."[1] I think many of the design choices the author is griping about (which numbers mercifully avoid) is an illustration of this tendency, which itself is a result of the two boats Scheme had a leg in for years: both a minimalistic language with elegant semantics, useful for pedagogy and optimal for hobby implementations ("50-page purists") and a viable, modern, competitive language for nontrivial applications. Despite all this, you'll take my Scheme and Racket away from my cold, dead hands. [1]: http://www.scheme-reports.org/2009/position-statement.html http://www.scheme-reports.org/2009/position-statement.html