R6RS is "perfect"        1. the academic publishing business
2. the fund raising business   3. adapting each others
innovations      beza1e1 said...  The biggest argument against
R6RS seems to be bloat. They say Scheme betrays its root,
because it gets big and complex, instead of "smallest possible,
while usable."  Is it really debated enough, wether all this
stuff belongs into Scheme? Probably. Then why don't people just
point to the mailing list thread (or whatever)?  taw said...
I'm just curious - why cannot the module system and the rest of
the stuff that R6RS tries to do be implemented as SRFIs first,
and only after they're used for some time they could be frozen
into the new spec ?  matthias said...  Easy questions.  Yes, one
can produce an OS with Turing Machines. (At least I am pretty
sure one can.) I still wouldn't want to do it. In this spirit,
Scheme isn't the best medium for creating large applications and
frameworks.  The implementors (on the editoral board) _have_
implemented variations of th