On Wed, 3 Sep 2014 19:11:12 -0400, John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> said:
> ...
> the language of 80 divergent implementations, in which
> pairs are mutable, lists are built from them, and arbitrarily large
> numbers of arguments are expressed using lists.  Are those decisions
> ideal?  No.

  Moreover, there is no such thing as an
  ideal decision in language design.  It is
  always a trade-off.

> But they are part of what makes "naš jezik" what it is.

  "Šta je Scheme, to je lepo!"  :- )

  ---Vassil.

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Vassil Nikolov | Васил Николов | <vnikolov@pobox.com>

"Be careful how you fix what you don't understand."  (Brooks 2010, 185)

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