Scheme specifications - Re: cctech Digest, Vol 15, Issue 25

Toby Thain toby at telegraphics.com.au
Fri Sep 25 15:19:59 CDT 2015


On 2015-09-25 3:56 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> On 09/25/2015 12:33 PM, Clem Cole wrote:
>
>> "Fortran 2015 is currently 617 pages and will go some more before
>> publication"​
>
> It does make one curious to ask if *any* language has ever had a smaller
> manual/specification than any previous version.

Wasn't Scheme r7rs smaller and simpler than the widely derided Scheme r6rs?

--Toby

>
> If the answer is "no", then we must have a new "law":
>
> "Languages and their documentation will become ever more voluminous and
> incomprehensible"
>
>
> --Chuck
>
>



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