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Re:Scheme in the real world by Zak on Thursday November 01, 2007 @03:30PM (#75159)
A big part of it is the fact that Scheme is simple and Common Lisp is not. This is a "soft" feature, but I think it's important. I want to try out Scheme and see if it feels better.

I ask because I'd like to get a perspective on the tools that are available from people who actually make things with them. The programming language I use might be a "secret weapon" in some situations, but most of the people it would give me an advantage over wouldn't even understand why it's an advantage.

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Re:Scheme in the real world by viergroupie on Thursday November 01, 2007 @07:09PM (#75245)
The problem I had with Scheme was that it doesn't stay simple. The core is certainly more elegant than Common Lisp's, but all the cruft has a nasty way of sneaking back in through SRFIs and big hairy macros.
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