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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]

Thank you very much for this great article!
Scheme history is particularly fascinating because it served as a vehicle for introducing a plethora of concepts (lambda calculus and formal semantics, closures, continuations and CPS, ...) to a wide audience, bridging the theoretic and pragmatic worlds; it's also one of the finest examples of a hacker culture product in origins. —Piet Delport (talk) 2009-10-20 05:56


Material deleted from "Carl Hewitt, the Actor model, and the birth of Scheme"

Some of the material below was deleted from the article.171.66.33.22 (talk) 23:10, 26 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

(Deleted for readability; see the diff instead. —Piet Delport (talk) 2009-10-28 10:13)

I think it would be great if this article could continue to focus on what Sussman and Steele got out of their investigation of the Actor model, and not on the obvious shortcomings of Scheme if one tries to view it as in any way a serious attempt to produce an alternative, which it isn't. --TS 17:17, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The published quotations shed considerable light on the history. How can the peoples' intent be determined 35 years after the fact? And how can how it changed with time be tracked? 171.66.86.186 (talk) 00:48, 28 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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