[r6rs-discuss] Proposed features for small Scheme, part 1: a stake in the ground

[Ben Goetter]

John Cowan wrote:
> Ben Goetter scripsit:
>   
>> John Cowan wrote:
>>     
>>> R4 is very nearly dead; the implementations that only
>>> support R4RS are pretty much unmaintained.
>>>       
>> Stalin is unrepentently R4RS, and it is still maintained.  Last release 
>> 2 Oct 2006.
>>     
>
> Three years is a long time in Internet time.
In its 3.0 incarnation, Gambit spent more than three years without an 
external release.  It wasn't dead, only restin'.  One man projects often 
work that way.

>   And Stalin [... is] a nightmare to maintain for
> anyone but the author, especially given that the internal documentation
> consists of "LaHaShem HaAretz U'Mloah" at the beginning and "Tam V'Nishlam
> Shevah L'El Borei Olam" at the end of each source file. :-)
>   
Smiley notwithstanding, the crack about Stalin's internal doc is untrue.
There is also higher-level external documentation, qv 
ftp://ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/qobi/fdlcc.pdf

R4RS is alive and well and living in Peru.

Ben