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Re:What Killed Smalltalk? by muuh-gnu on Saturday August 22, 2015 @04:23AM (#10101909)
> Racket, arguably the most popular Scheme implementation

Umm, NO. Racket isnt a "Scheme implementation". Racket was a Scheme as long as they called themselves MzScheme. Then they decided that they changed too much that a complete name change was justified in order to not confuse users.

Racket isnt a "Scheme implementation" for the same reason Scheme isnt a "Lisp implementation".

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Re:What Killed Smalltalk? by elibarzilay on Sunday August 23, 2015 @06:18AM (#10105171)
From http://racket-lang.org/new-name.html -- "Racket is a Scheme". The name change was about very different things than "basic scheme routines", and it would be hard to find any basic scheme implementation without any.
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Re:What Killed Smalltalk? by iopq on Saturday August 22, 2015 @11:48AM (#10102785)
Scheme is a "Lisp implementation", it's just not a "Common Lisp implementation"
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