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R6RS was the systemd of language standards. It went against the very philosophy of the language it purported to standardize, and was basically a prescriptive standard based on a few influential individuals' notion of what Scheme "should" be.

That's another reason why I remain unswayed in my detestation for systemd: I'd seen this movie before and I don't like how it ends.




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