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Why an article on Scheme's history?

This stub article was born of my work on Scheme (programming language). As a Schemer I've been vaguely aware of much of this for some time, but as I've read that various articles on related subjects and external materials over the past few days in writing the Scheme article I've become aware that there's a lot of information scattered around but it isn't reflected anywhere on Wikipedia.

Writing computer history is fun because it's recent enough for most of the actors to still be around and commenting on their earlier work, most of them are academics who have spent their entire life publishing their thoughts and write with a reasonable degree of candor and considerable historical insight. There's bags of material and it cries out to be written about. --TS 19:50, 15 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]