On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 06:27:16PM -0800, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:

That may be. However, I am tired of the "Oh, it just takes a couple of hours to implement" that pervades the Scheme folks when they talk about implementations.

48 hours being the famous, actual, number.  That 48 hours included a
reader, writer, byte-code compiler, byte-code interpreter, and garbage
collector.  It was done after a lisp conference, before the two people who
wrote it had to depart.

Fortunately, they spent the time to then turn the toy into a real useful
system, affectionately called Scheme 48.

David

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