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

[Nicholas "Indy" Ray]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Thomas Lord<lord at emf.net> wrote:
> I'd (personal preference) like small scheme to be
> something that can run on a 1-watt, low-memory
> system in, say, a light switch.  I'd like to be able
> to use it in situations where I'm never going to
> load it up with more than a few lines of code (and
> couldn't, even if I wanted to).  But the small scheme
> standard tells me what those few lines of code mean.

Any scheme that would end up being able to run on a light switch would
have to be an implementation specifically designed to do such. And
just by running in such a constrained system, it would already lose
nearly all portability with code written for any other "small scheme"
implementation. It seems silly to constrain the standard language to
maintain some sort of imaginary compatibility with an implementation
that inherently can't be compatible.

Nicholas "Indy" Ray