Scheme, on the other hand, is very loosely specified. This is a good thing: the core language is so small that the entire standard fits on about 50 pages...It’s not nebulous, it’s simply minimalist. This is why Scheme is more of an idea than a language.
Smalltalk wound up being quite loosely specified. This, combined with the small "core," enabling single developers rolling their own, resulted in a high degree of fragmentation of the overall language community.
Smalltalk wound up being quite loosely specified. This, combined with the small "core," enabling single developers rolling their own, resulted in a high degree of fragmentation of the overall language community.