WTF is going on with R7RS Large?
While some of the things said there cannot be assessed by an outsider, the last paragraph that starts with:<p>"Scheme has an outsized importance in the world of programming languages compared to its actual use in industry, because it has so often pioneered features that later broke into the mainstream.".<p>is doubtless true.<p>Scheme belongs to a list of at least two dozen historical programming languages that have introduced very important innovations and anyone who has the ambition of creating or improving any programming language should be familiar with all of them.<p>I consider sad the fact that all more recent attempts of introducing new programming languages appear to have been made by people who happened to have some brilliant idea about how to improve some feature of programming languages, but otherwise they seem to have little knowledge about past programming languages, so they combine their new good feature with various bad features from a few languages that happen to be popular now, due to various historic accidents, even if already many decades ago better alternatives were known.<p>Because of this continuous reinventing of the wheel, all the available programming languages include various combinations of good features with bad features, so none is completely satisfactory.