On 28/09/15 00:20, Panicz Maciej Godek wrote: > Delimited continuations are an academic curiosity, and sockets and > regexps are just a specific domain (I'm sure you could easily find > plenty of others; anyway, they are by no means fundamental)
Sorry, but I have to comment on this. So did people think of lambdas, map, reduce and the rest of list/array collective manipulation procedures, but look at the new Java/C++ et al standards. It just so happened that they have implemented them decades after they achieved their normal use in languages like Lisp and Scheme. I wonder when we'll finally get tail calls and named lets in the mainstream languages :). I fully understand Taylan's point of view. Scheme has more expressive power than any other dynamic language I have encountered. I am trying to use it for day-to-day tasks which used to be difficult only because the batteries were not included. Maybe for you it's a nice little language to demo great coding ideas, but it can be a practical platform as Guile demonstrates. Unfortunately for the novice programmers the practicality of Guile only becomes clear after one can use its nifty FFI to patch up the still unimplemented features. In a sense, I don't think it is so necessary to have a practical Scheme standard as long as there is at least one implementation that can be used to perform with ease 90% of tasks a modern programmer needs to tackle. And, yeah, I'd love to see the core scheme kept clean. All the best...
