Daphne Preston-Kendal on Nostr: A lot of confusions about Scheme arise from approaching it as a ‘language like ...
A lot of confusions about Scheme arise from approaching it as a ‘language like Python, that’s monomorphic and not OO for some reason’ – when it’s actually more a ‘language like C, that happens to have garbage collection and the possibility (!) for run-time type checking’
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