[r6rs-discuss] Implementors' intentions concerning R6RS

[Thomas Lord]

Chris Hanson wrote:
> Granted, this standard has generated more than its share of bad feeling.
>  I think that's due to some fumbling in the way the committees were set
> up and run, which led to a lot of people feeling excluded or
> marginalized.  There was (and is, apparently) serious lack of open
> discussion about overall goals and how to achieve them.  The process was
> poorly managed and consequently became dominated by strong personalities
> rather than a spirit of compromise.  And far too much of the process was
> handled behind the scenes, although towards the end there was some
> significant opening up.  The late transparency didn't help very much,
> since by then there were already serious problems, and it was much too
> late to fix them.
>   


All in all, in other words:  not bad for a first outing.

-t

(And as you say, wouldn't be good for a second one!)