[r6rs-discuss] Interpreters need not apply?

[John Cowan]

Aubrey Jaffer scripsit:

> I have 70000 lines of mathematical, scientific, engineering, database,
> and scripting software written in Scheme showing that R5RS is
> sufficient without syntax extensions.  How much one-instruction
> assembly code have you written?

Diffidently I suggest that your code might have been substantially
shorter if it had made better use of the R5RS-provided mechanism
for syntactic abstraction.

"In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is
no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take
away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness." 
	--Antoine de St.-Exupery, "Wind, Sand, and Stars"

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