Re: [Chicken-users] Scheme is dead, long live Scheme

[John Cowan]

Ivan Raikov scripsit:

> > 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.
> 
>    I most certainly do not consider ISO C or C++ to be good language
> standards. In my opinion, a programming language standard should
> encourage and support the proliferation of high-quality
> implementations. 

If there aren't a lot of high-quality C implementations, that is not
the fault of the ISO C standard.

> Compare with C++: 

I said nothing of C++, which should not be bracketed with C.

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