[plt-scheme] PLT vs. the world

From: i j (laplacian42 at gmail.com)
Date: Sun Apr 19 19:37:14 EDT 2009

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 6:14 PM, i j <laplacian42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Robby Findler
>> <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>>> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 5:46 PM, i j <laplacian42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Others suggested that R6RS was basically a product of PLT.
>>>
>>> Just because of the appalling untruth to this one, [snip]
>>>
>>> I generally think of this mailing list as a friendly place, and I hope
>>> the remainder of this thread bears that out, but please do try to do a
>>> little bit of fact checking to make sure you do not repeat nonsense
>>> (flame bait, even).
>>
>> Thanks for the reply, Robby. Certainly not trying to post nonsense or
>> be rude. I do however think it was interesting that this particular
>> commenter's comment (on the site mentioned) was probably taken as
>> truth by many (as it was upvoted pretty well).
>>
>> Perhaps if there were a PLT faq or wiki, these sorts of "apalling
>> untruths" :) could be clarified and easily linked to.
>
> Do you mind pointing me to that comment, so I can at least point out
> the editor situation, or perhaps read this in more detail?
>
> Thanks,
> Robby
>

Heh, after some searching (both my memory, and reddit), finally found it:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/73r55/scheme_language_steering_committee_election/

(It was the "PLT takes over" comment that I was remembering. And the
one after it for that matter.)


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