Digital Mark λ 📚 🕹 💾 🥃 on Nostr: nprofile1q…dl9v9 Scheme (50 years) had a similar breaking change version, R6RS, ...

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq9y8xknr5twkrg2aeu6dyt9rhk5eg6punm4kl4q07pp0av8aa47es8dl9v9 (nprofile…l9v9) Scheme (50 years) had a similar breaking change version, R6RS, that handles Unicode and has some essential libraries built in. And then the recidivists rejected it and made a broken R7RS that doesn't do that stuff, and maybe in 5-10 years there'll be an R7RS-large that's halfway usable.

All these languages have problems with churn or lack thereof, both are bad.
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