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

[Alex Queiroz]

Hallo,

On 8/17/07, John Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
> Ivan Raikov scripsit:
>
> >    Well, I see no need to start pining for the good old days yet, as
> > like you say we still have R5RS and Chicken at our
> > disposal. Unfortunately, if R5RS implementations do continue to vastly
> > outnumber R6RS implementations, the language will be split in two
> > camps,
>
> The language is massively fragmented already, so this is nothing new.
>

     Yeah, why write a report that would make things better?

> > But that's what you get when the Editors' Committee chooses to wish
> > away the reality of existing Schemes,
>
> 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.
>

     The difference is that the C standard usually gets better...

Cheers,
-- 
-alex
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