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From: kend@data.UUCP (Ken Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re^2: Who or What is Scheme?
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Date: 3 May 91 17:42:49 GMT
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goer@ellis.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz) writes:

Check one:

>X   Scheme is rapidly emerging, in various forms, as a viable alternative
>    to its bloated cousins (e.g. CL).  Although it is not used in many
>    production systems just yet, it soon will be.

While Scheme is widely used in teaching today {as was C a while ago},
it is being increasingly used in industry {it has been proposed, for
example, as the standard language for the Cad Framework Initiative}.

[My opinion]
-Ken Dickey