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<xentrac>oriansj: because different Scheme programmers can't understand each other's code?
<CORDIC>IMHO choice of a Scheme dialect is like a choice of a Text Editor.
<CORDIC>Which I can not create, I do not understand. -- Richard Feynman
<oriansj>xentrac: because all implementations tend to be tightly wound; growing in cognative load with every feature of scheme added. Basically to get 2 scheme programmers to work together, they need share a way of implementing a solution.
<oriansj>CORDIC: well that is the nice thing about the upcoming Scheme 7 standard; finally end the differences in scheme dialects. It unfortunately appears to still be missing out on some foundational primitives
<oriansj>hmmmm, I wonder if we missed something