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4-Oct-2009

That’s one way to ensure a language never goes mainstream

Filed under: programming — jlm @ 09:09

Quick quiz: How do you find the arguments to your Scheme program?
  a) argv
  b) *argv*
  c) command-line
  d) program-arguments

Answer? It depends on whether you’re using Guile, SCM, umb-scheme, or mzscheme! That’s right, it’s impossible to write a Scheme program that takes arguments and is portable across implementations. Winnar.


Update: In 2013, option (c) was standardized.

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