The second example is more readable for several reasons. 1. You chose a better function name (hello0 looks a little confusing) 2. You [EDIT: actually Wikipedi

The second example is more readable for several reasons. 1. You chose a better function name (hello0 looks a little confusing) 2. You [EDIT: actually Wikipedia] decided for whatever reason to use let rather than define in the Scheme example. 3. Dart's "print" function is more suitable for console output on a single line than Scheme's "display". Here's the fix: (define (print something) (display something) (newline)) (define (hello) (print "Hello world")) All of a sudden (f a b) doesn't seem way more complicated than f(a, b);.