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Re:John Carmack working on Scheme as a VR scripting language by ahoge on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @10:06AM (#9811855)
> [Scheme's syntax is] not that uniform, really.

"Scheme's very simple syntax is based on s-expressions, parenthesized lists in which a prefix operator is followed by its arguments. Scheme programs thus consist of sequences of nested lists."

That's as uniform as it gets. Everything is the same.

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Re:John Carmack working on Scheme as a VR scripting language by sklogic on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @10:11AM (#9811890)
Firstly, Racket is not a Scheme. There are reader macros and all that bells and whistles. Does this look like S-expressions to you?

https://github.com/soegaard/minipascal

Secondly, even most Schemes allow to use [ ] and { } in addition to ( ).

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Re:John Carmack working on Scheme as a VR scripting language by ahoge on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @10:20AM (#9811963)
> Firstly, Racket is not a Scheme.

Did I talk about Racket anywhere?

> Does this look like S-expressions to you?

"MiniPacal implemented in Racket"

Are you really arguing that implementing some other language is the way to go?

https://github.com/eudoxia0/cmacro http://research.swtch.com/shmacro

Totally legit "C".

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Re:John Carmack working on Scheme as a VR scripting language by sklogic on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @10:33AM (#9812053)
> Did I talk about Racket anywhere?

This is a thread about Racket, if you did not notice.

> Are you really arguing that implementing some other language is the way to go?

This is exactly what Lisps are about. You've got a nearly raw AST at the bottom (S-expressions) and then you build up a hierarchy of languages on top of it.

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