[r6rs-discuss] [ANN] scheme-reports.org

[Pavel Dudrenov]

I completely agree with Elf. And Small scheme can just be scheme, and
large scheme can be scheme-stdlib.

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Elf<elf at ephemeral.net> wrote:
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> My own thoughts:
>
> I don't think the committee is correct in their assessment in a few vital
> ways, though this may be more due to wording than intent.
>
> PLT, popularly believed to be one of the drivers behind R6, is primarily used
> 'for education'.  It's also one of the largest schemes out there in terms of
> size and complexity.
>
> Larceny, on the other hand, I believe was for use and testing, and is fairly
> small.
>
> The distinction between 'for education' and 'for real world' is not as clear
> as a 'small' vs 'large' scheme.
>
> I think that the correct approach would be for a small scheme with standard
> libraries.  The key concept here is the plural of library.  If we view SRFIs
> as akin to RFCs, we can view the standard libs as akin to RFCs that have
> completed the standard-track (STD).  Instead of being a 'large scheme' vs
> a 'small scheme', a single scheme with both a process for fully standardised
> libraries/interfaces and the means to support it would be preferable.
>
> Just my 2c.
>
> -elf
>
>
>
> On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Marc Feeley wrote:
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>> [Apologies if you get duplicates of this message.]
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>> The documents being published today are:
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>> 1) The amended Scheme Language Steering Committee charter.
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>> 2) The steering committee's position statement on Scheme language
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>> 3) A draft of the working group meta charter, that describes how
>>    working groups are run.
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>> 4) A draft of the charter for working group 1, which will
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>>    a "small" Scheme language.
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>>    be involved in the elaboration of a specification for
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