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In article <BLUME.96Mar12104653@zayin.cs.princeton.edu> blume@zayin.cs.princeton.edu (Matthias Blume) writes:

|   This only shows that you haven't looked at it at all.  I developed
|   VSCM, because I particularly disliked MIT Scheme.

I'm curious, what in particular did you dislike?  I have my own list,
and I'm one of the guilty.  Next time I implement a Scheme system (if
ever), I will make it pretty different, keeping what I think is
wonderful about it while dropping some of the stuff that I don't
consider good.

However, one of the bad properties of MIT Scheme is that the
documentation is very incomplete (and sometimes incorrect).  A lot of
the features (or things you might dislike) are not advertised except
by word of mouth, and proximity to the implementors is unfortunately
required.

I won't defend this, because it is indefensible.  However, the
unfortunate fact remains that the main implementors/designers (Chris
Hanson and myself) both hate to write text in a formal setting, so
things do not get written down.
