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Re: the rhetoric of "standard" Re: why standard scheme matters to me
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Maciej Stachowiak |
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Re: the rhetoric of "standard" Re: why standard scheme matters to me |
Date: |
Mon, 8 Oct 2001 22:32:05 -0700 |
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On 08Oct2001 11:06PM (-0700), Tom Lord wrote:
>
> From: Maciej Stachowiak <address@hidden>
> On 08Oct2001 04:32PM (-0700), Tom Lord wrote:
> >
> >
> > R5RS only had to pass the review of a small, self-appointed committee
> > -- whose perspectives did not represent those of all implementors, and
> > did not represent those with an interest in closely related
> > technology, such as Common Lisp, or even, dare I say it, Emacs.
>
> Guy L. Steele, the primary author of the Common Lisp standard, is also
> one of the RnRS authors. I've read some historical notes recently (on
> a discussion on comp.lang.scheme) where he strongly urged the RnRS
> group to make #f and '() distinct, and called the #f / '() equivalence
> in Common Lisp "a mistake".
>
> That's actually a pretty funny reply if you look at it in context.
>
Don't start thinking you're as cool as Guy L. Steele now. :-)
- Maciej
- why standard scheme matters to me, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2001/10/05
- Re: why standard scheme matters to me, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2001/10/08
- Re: the rhetoric of "standard" Re: why standard scheme matters to me, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2001/10/09
- Re: the rhetoric of "standard" Re: why standard scheme matters to me, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2001/10/09
- Re: the rhetoric of "standard" Re: why standard scheme matters to me, Tom Lord, 2001/10/09
- Re: the rhetoric of "standard" Re: why standard scheme matters to me, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2001/10/09
- Re: the rhetoric of "standard" Re: why standard scheme matters to me, Tom Lord, 2001/10/09
- Re: the rhetoric of "standard" Re: why standard scheme matters to me, Bill Gribble, 2001/10/09