Ivan Raikov scripsit:
> Well, I see no need to start pining for the good old days yet, as
> like you say we still have R5RS and Chicken at our
> disposal. Unfortunately, if R5RS implementations do continue to vastly
> outnumber R6RS implementations, the language will be split in two
> camps,
The language is massively fragmented already, so this is nothing new.
> But that's what you get when the Editors' Committee chooses to wish
> away the reality of existing Schemes,
I prefer the view of the ANSI/ISO C standards committee: "Old code
is important; old implementations are not." Even Sun has now been
dragged kicking and screaming into the ISO C age.
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Humpty Dump Dublin hath a horrible vorse
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Humpty Dump Dublin's grandada of all rogues. --Cousin James
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