[plt-scheme] A literary metaphor for Scheme

Prabhakar Ragde wrote:
> 
> If Scheme were a literary figure, who would it be?
> 
> I mean an author, but naming a character might also work. I have some 
> ideas, but will wait to share them with those who are interested. --PR
>

Joyce, obviously.  Capable of everything: small, accessible perfection
(Dubliners, Portrait); unbelievable greatness and complexity
(Ulysses); outright reader-nuking incomprehensibility (Finnegans
Wake).

Read "higher order functions", "macros", "continuations", "closures",
... as and where you see fit.

And of course, everyone arm-wavingly agrees that he's really great,
that he's done just about all that can be done with language and form,
but almost no one reads him, and a only tiny handful have read all of
him.

What's your take, Prabhakar?

nishad
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