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

[John Cowan]

Grant Rettke scripsit:
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 4:08 PM, John Cowan<cowan at ccil.org> wrote:
> > Do you think that R5RS unmodified would garner 90% as Small Scheme
> > today?  I doubt it.
> 
> Why?

Because of the existence of the aforementioned Minimalist fundamentalists,
who want a Scheme core with seven predefined identifiers, nine at a pinch.
Get to ten, and it's (in the words of the famous Jewish joke) "too busy".
See http://tinyurl.com/m4hb7a at Google Books for the whole joke.

-- 
John Cowan  cowan at ccil.org  http://ccil.org/~cowan
Any sufficiently-complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc,
informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.
        --Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming (rules 1-9 are unknown)