> Scheme *should* be used for everything because at least one good macro > system has been designed for it. Lisp macros can do arbitrary > computation at compile-time, and the Scheme macro system required by > R6RS provides all the power of Lisp macros *and* supports a > pattern-matching macro specification syntax for simple syntactic sugar.
That doesn't explain *why* it should be used. Why should Scheme, or any other language with a higher level of abstraction and obfuscation, replace a relatively clean and unencumbered language like C? I'm looking for practical reasons here, not academic ones.
