Time for a Fresh Scheme Standard: Say Goodbye to the RnRS Relic

Cliff Wells logiplexsoftware at earthlink.net
Sun Dec 23 00:14:25 EST 2001


On Sat, 22 Dec 2001 22:28:03 -0600
"Chris Gonnerman" <chris.gonnerman at newcenturycomputers.net> wrote:
> Who are these people, and what are they doing in this list?
> 
> I bear no malice toward any language (unless you count disgust
> with Visual Basic or confusion with Perl) and would not engage
> in such heated battle with anyone over any language.
> 
> This is the only list I still subscribe to because 1) I love 
> Python and 2) the people, from GvR on down, are reasonable and
> generally quite polite.

Apparently there is a skirmish involving some people who think Tengwar is superior to Lisp and/or Scheme and the battle has become so violent that it has seeped over to other lists... I understand there's a troll involved and perhaps a hobbit or two.


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