Lispers are such funny people
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
A
humourous exchange on c.l.l./c.l.s.:
Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen announcing the R7RS Scheme Draft:
"R7RS Scheme Draft V2007-4-1William D Clinger:
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R7RS Scheme is a Lisp dialect largely inspired by Scheme.
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It's about time for Scheme to inspire a dialect of Lisp.Pascal Bourguignon:
Sounds good. Perhaps R9RS will be indistinguishable enough from CL that I'll be able to use it :-)Didier Virna:
Actually, no way ! Quoting Mike Sperber at that Thai restaurant just 1 hour ago: "R6RS is just, you know, flushing the 80's. Objects are the 90's. We're not quite there yet..." :-)David Rush:
Oh no. Please tell me he was just talking shite after drinking too much Asian beer. I thought that the category-theory people had all made this abundantly clear during the late 90s ;)Michael Sperber:
Be that as it may, but you don't have worry, because ...William D Clinger:
I WAS SPEAKING AS AN INDIVIDUAL MEMBER OF THE SCHEME COMMUNITY. I WAS NOT SPEAKING FOR THE R6RS EDITORS, AND THIS QUOTE SHOULD NOT BE CONFUSED WITH THE EDITORS' OFFICIAL POSITION.
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Indeed, the R6RS editors don't have any official position on the decade in which they are living.Matthias Blume:
Not to worry. We are well into the 00's. Objects are soooo last millenium...
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