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Draft Scheme Standard R6RS Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the scheming-with-a-lisp dept.

Watson Ladd writes, "The new version of the official Scheme standard has been released as a draft (PDF)." From the draft: "[This] report gives a defining description of the programming language Scheme. Scheme is a statically scoped and properly tail-recursive dialect of the Lisp programming language invented by Guy Lewis Steele Jr. and Gerald Jay Sussman. It was designed to have an exceptionally clear and simple semantics and few different ways to form expressions. A wide variety of programming paradigms, including imperative, functional, and message passing styles, find convenient expression in Scheme."

3 of 235 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Hurray! by drgnvale · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No, the original reads more like lisp and scheme code than your garbage.

  2. Re:Isn't it amazing... QWZX by masklinn · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There is a reason that C and C++ derived languages dominate the industry.

    Because managers are stupid fucks and don't know any better?

    --
    "The way we can tell it's C# instead of Haskell is because it's nine lines instead of two." -- wadler
  3. complicated syntax is readable and error-resistant by r00t · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Humans deal best with languages in which form matches function and there is a bit of redundancy.

    Sure, you can go too far. Perhaps perl and C++ do.

    In something like C or Pascal, a block is normally rather distinct from an expression. Humans rely on visual pattern recognition to read code. Scheme delibrately avoids anything that would be useful for pattern recognition.

    With Scheme, it all becomes a blur. Every line is like every other line.