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[John Cowan]

Vincent Manis scripsit:

> Darn! I was hoping to persuade everyone to call the small language  
> Foogol and the large one Conniver :-)

I'm for Foogol (it was I who retargeted the code generator from Vax
assembly language to C, toot toot).

> Agreed re separate loading. My point is that if we have n options,  
> then we have 2^n combinations that an implementor can choose from,  
> which hardly reaches any kind of goal of creating a `standard'  
> language. 

Well said.  On the other hand, I never saw much point in required
libraries (required, in the sense that conformant implementations must
provide them), especially in a small Scheme.  Unless there are multiple
libraries introducing the same names, it's just extra work for the
programmer to declare them.  Develop with the full set of names, and
use a tree-shaker for deployment.

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