2009/9/26 John Cowan <co...@ccil.org>: >> The fact is that I don't like "Thing One", or "Small Scheme". > > "Thing One" and "Thing Two" are deliberate jokes; see > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cat_in_the_Hat#The_Cat_in_the_Hat
And frankly, remembering the character of Thing One and Thing Two, I think that they are entirely apropriate role models for the Scheme dialects. They're kinda the same, but still individual, and they cause no end of trouble for the gatekeepers of a "normal" life - and of course they clean it all up at the end too! There's not even a dominance relationship between them, which should be a model for the peaceful coexistence of our iconoclastic community :) I am *thoroughly* in favor of Scheme being the name for the language, and Thing1/Thing2 as the dialect designators to use when the distinction is important. But I really do love the half-"S"ed unicoded version of the name for Thing2 :) david rush -- who isn't sure about which of Steele, Clinger, or Shivers is the Cat in the Hat _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list r6rs-discuss@lists.r6rs.org http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
