This question has been burning me up as well. On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 4:16 PM Matthias Felleisen <matth...@felleisen.org> wrote:
> > > Let me inject some comments that make it a bit more obvious what’s > happening here: > > > > On Feb 26, 2019, at 3:33 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <sa...@cs.indiana.edu> > wrote: > > > > RnRS meetings from 1984 thru 2003 adhere to the “unanimity rule” > originating from the MIT group. > > In 2001, I created and ran “Scheme and Functional Programming” (SFP), a > first annual Scheme workshop that also subsumed “Scheme Report” meetings. > > > > 2003: New Scheme Standard proposed at the Scheme Workshop > > At the 2003 Boston SFP, I proposed going to a majority rule so that the > Scheme standard could grow into a useful language after a long long day, > with many people gone. The motion passed. > > > 2006: First draft of R6RS released > > 2007: R6RS Ratified by community vote after extensive discussion and > revision > > I wrote an essay entitled “The R6RS is Perfect”. The certification vote > succeeded with just a few votes more than needed (60% or 66% or something > like that). > > > > 2009: A new Scheme Standard steering committee elected by a community > > vote. The new committee reflected opposition to the R6RS. > > (as in “community vote” by another Scheme workshop) > > > We, the Racketeers, didn’t want to be in their way so we wrote this: > > https://racket-lang.org/new-name.html > > History is history. The future you can change, unless Gödel is right about > Einstein’s equations and it’s practical. > > — Matthias > > > > > -- > 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.
