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Pi Delport (talk | contribs) →Why an article on Scheme's history?: thank you very much! |
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Writing computer history is fun because it's recent enough for most of the actors to still be around and commenting on their earlier work, most of them are academics who have spent their entire life publishing their thoughts and write with a reasonable degree of candor and considerable historical insight. There's bags of material and it cries out to be written about. --[[User talk:Tony Sidaway|TS]] 19:50, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
: Thank you very much for this great article!
: Scheme history is particularly fascinating because it served as a vehicle for introducing a plethora of concepts ([[lambda calculus]] and [[Formal semantics of programming languages|formal semantics]], [[closure (computer science)|closure]]s, [[continuation]]s and [[continuation-passing style|CPS]], ...) to a wide audience, bridging the theoretic and pragmatic worlds; it's also one of the finest examples of a [[hacker (programmer subculture)|hacker culture]] product in origins. <span style="white-space:nowrap">—[[User:Piet Delport|Piet Delport]] <small>([[User talk:Piet Delport|talk]]) 2009-10-20 05:56</small></span>
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