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>Exactly! >Now, the only advantages of Scheme over CL are simplicity and smallness. When >they are gone from Common Scheme, what will the advantages be? >Why not stick with the existing CL, with several robust implementations, rather >than reinvent the wheel? Not this old flame war! The reason we like Scheme is not because the standard libraries are small (we use Scheme despite that), but because the *language* is small. Admittedly Lisp isn't that big, but Scheme is a whole lot nicer. Scheme also has stuff that Lisp hasn't got and won't get - like call/cc and guaranteed constant space tail calls. In the mean time we can steal the CL libraries and implement them in Scheme, and not lose much.