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[dave at cca.org]

jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu writes:

>So, a group of people went of and created Scheme with the intent of
>going back to roots, and being purer still.  Thus, while there are
>larger schemes (like MIT Scheme, which I didn't mention on the list
>since I can't figure out why it is worth 20 megs of disk space),
>mostly schemes are small and they keep you focussed on what it means
>to be doing functional programming.

The standard example being that the full Scheme manual is shorter
than the Common Lisp manual table of contents.

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