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From: yost@tss.com (Dave Yost)
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Subject: Re: ideas from the icon language applied to scheme
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Date: 4 Mar 91 18:58:19 GMT
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In article <1991Mar3.013912.14857@midway.uchicago.edu>, goer@ellis.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz) writes:
|> What is it about Scheme in particular that make it a more attractive
|> basis for your intended application?  Just curious.

* The fact that it can execute a string containing source code.
* The fact there are scheme implementations that seem to be more
  easily assimilated into a C environment.

Also, I'm learning scheme partly just because I'm interested in it
and because I'm reading the Abelson & Sussman(s) book.
I'd rather use Icon-style expression evaluation, and it seemed
that scheme could easily accomodate that.

 --dave yost