[plt-scheme] Re: Scheme workshop survey

Reductionist dying out? You must be kidding Marc; everyone here tried  
that!


On Oct 17, 2008, at 3:48 PM, Marc Feeley wrote:

>
> On 17-Oct-08, at 3:07 PM, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote:
>
>> Dear Marc,
>>
>> I am deeply disappointed to find out that the survey's designer does
>> not know Scheme.  Apparently
>>
>>  (car '((a b c) x y z))
>>
>> does NOT evaluate to
>>
>>  '(a b c)
>>
>> (It apparently also doesn't evaluate to
>>
>> (cons 'a (cons 'b (cons 'c empty)))
>>
>> or to various other expressions that use call/cc, but I can excuse
>> those.  The first error is unacceptable.)
>
> Wow!  I did not know you were a reductionist...  I thought those  
> folks died off a long time ago.  But hey there is still hope for  
> you... you could come to the next Scheme workshop to try to  
> convince the rest of the Scheme community you are right (or be  
> assimilated).  Can I count on you?
>
> Marc
>
> P.S. I did handle the whitespace, case-sensitivity, square-bracket  
> and dotted pair issues so that the following is accepted: [  A  b .  
> (   C)]
>
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