Yow, I somehow I had forgotten about the existence of this book; I can see why people are salivating over it. Too bad the posted price was too good to be true.
At 10:22 PM 8/17/2007, Jeff Read wrote:
On 8/15/07, Guillaume Germain guillaume.germain@gmail.com wrote:
R6RS!
Wins the "prize" for me, certainly produced the biggest laugh this week, a week that needed all the humor it could get.
Since we're doing jokes, and since RnRS is itself based on a joke (a play on the Algol report) -- earlier today I thought of a better name which I think the newly inaugurated R5.97RS should be called by when it becomes a final standard: GrandScheme.
"Grand", of course, being French for large, which is the exact opposite of the ideal for a Scheme standard. OH! I'll be here all week!
Not bad, but not as good as "R6RS!". We *do* need a distinctive name for that which we sincerely hope someday becomes "The Language Formerly Known As Scheme", assuming the Steering Committee doesn't do a major last minute intervention. I think I'll use GrandScheme for now, it works just as well for native English speakers.
We also need a name for what we've got, the R5RS based implementations that will at most have a R6RS compatibility package (the route Larceny and Gauche will be taking).
I've been using "UncommonScheme" as a working name; I don't dislike Common Lisp per se, but there's reasons I switched....
Yes, I want the book pretty damn bad.
So do I....
- Harold