This is part of the reason I dislike scheme. Too many incompatible implementations. I'm a die hard common lisp fan, and I love the fact that cl has many implementations and that any software I write will run on most or all of them unchanged. With scheme, any interesting software pretty much has to be written for a particular implementation, because scheme is simply too small.
I sincerely hope that the new standard would help here. Splitting the language into a big and small system seems like a good compromise between the traditional scheme goal of minimalism and pragmatism. I'd like to hear schemers opinions on this, does the new "big scheme" really address the issue of fragmentation?
I sincerely hope that the new standard would help here. Splitting the language into a big and small system seems like a good compromise between the traditional scheme goal of minimalism and pragmatism. I'd like to hear schemers opinions on this, does the new "big scheme" really address the issue of fragmentation?