mflatt answered some "why"s on the racket-dev list: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/racket-dev/2BV3ElyfF8Y/4RSd3XbECAAJ
On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 12:34 AM, Lehi Toskin <lehi.tos...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've read through a few README's in the racket7 repo and I can't find > anything specifically about *why* Racket is being implemented on top of > Chez Scheme, so I suppose I'll be asking here: > > Why the rewrite in the first place? Is it because C is ugly and yucky and > poopy? Why Chez Scheme and not, say, Chicken Scheme or GNU Guile? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
