CL functionality in SchemeOS

[William Barnett-Lewis]

Try "maxima" or "garnet" in scheme...

William

Chris Bitmead wrote:

> cosc19z5@bayou.uh.edu wrote:
>
> > What I've been saying about Scheme hasn't exactly been tactful
> > either, but let's face it; so many of Scheme's advocates have
> > their heads so up in the cloud about Scheme's small size that
> > none of them seem to wake up to the fact that Scheme is small
> > for the same reason a "Hello World" program is small -- it isn't
> > very useful!
>
> I would never say Scheme is good because it is small.
>
> > Languages need 2 things to be truly good:
> >         1) Flexibility of Syntax (Scheme has this)
> >         2) Functionality (Scheme does not have this)
>
> Scheme has plenty of functionality in things like slib. What is
> the problem?
>
> --
> Chris Bitmead
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