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

[John Cowan]

David Van Horn scripsit:

> This strikes me as an extremely cavalier attitude toward important prior 
> art and standards.  I doubt highly that a standard developed with this 
> attitude in mind would result in something garnering 90% support.

Well, you need not worry; I am not running for chair of WG1.  :-)
I think R4RS is an important standard, and I don't mean to dis it.

As for Stalin, I grant that it's important, and that it's art, but
I deny that it's actually prior to anything in particular.  It's
a dinosaur without even avian descendants.

-- 
John Cowan   cowan at ccil.org    http://ccil.org/~cowan
I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them
alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag
went over me.  I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am
Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider.  --Bilbo to Smaug