Полезность схемы, как языка программирования.

[thesz]

I certainly sat in lots of Scheme design meetings where I pushed for obvious things like branch cuts, error handling, and other "useful" things and was told that such things would either (a) increase the size [i.e., page count] of the spec [something some authors absolutely were not prepared to do] or (b) make the language "too useful" [thus meaning too many people would flock to it and it would be the end of the designers' ability to do the things to the language that _they_ wanted to do].

Вот те раз! ;)