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October 4, 2009

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

Filed under: Uncategorized — 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 if 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.

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