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Re:Racket by j_baker on Monday June 07, 2010 @04:12PM (#1411728)
I don't think I would call scheme "web-oriented".
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Re:Racket by jcl on Monday June 07, 2010 @06:34PM (#1412223)
It may not be common to refer to it as such, but the PLT Scheme guys see the web as the killer app for Scheme's continuations:

http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/kh...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation#Continuations_in_W...

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Re:Racket by waterhouse on Friday June 11, 2010 @03:30AM (#1423152)
So maybe the new name comes from the fact that you serve with it.
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