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From: gls@THINK.COM (Guy Steele)
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Subject: What is a Scheme?
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Date: 28 Aug 90 17:25:35 GMT
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   Date: Tue, 28 Aug 90 10:15:17 CDT
   From: Matthias Felleisen <matthias@rice.edu>
   ...
   If we interpret "essence" as what we like best, we don't have a
   dialogue but only a debate. What I like best is based on emotions,
   what is absolutely crucial to the language (in the above sense) is a
   formal statement and can be discussed (e.g. which classes of
   translations are interesting for what reason). I prefer logical
   discussions over emotional debates (the latter are useless for me as a
   language researcher) but am willing to do both (South Germans are
   hot-blooded, too :-) ).

Einen geschenkten Gaul sieht man nicht im Maul.

--Der Grossquux