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Was this done purely for the joke of writing Pyramid-Scheme next to Ethereum ?



why would someone write Scheme not as a joke?

wait do the downvotes mean that some people actually use Scheme?


Scheme is a wonderful and flexible language. There's a reason it was used as a teaching language and in books like SICP. I don't use it very much, but you really have to admire some of the power in the language, like the way variable binding is handled to make macros so powerful. In short: scheme is probably one of the best base languages for building DSLs. If I had to pick "most tasteful" programming languages I would put scheme in the top 3. (Above Python, which is the language I use the most, and above C++ and Java which are other languages I use at work.)


Yes.




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