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2026-01-17 17:50 UTC

Scheme, the ur programming language, is 50 years old, as Jason Hemann just reminded me.

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@tealeg@mastodon.online 2026-01-17 17:54

@shriramk@mastodon.social that's a lovely little bit of history.

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@dpk@chaos.social 2026-01-17 17:56

@shriramk@mastodon.social More Scheme in verse https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scheme-mail/HTML/rrrs-1987/msg00128.html

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@nikhil@mastodon.acm.org 2026-01-17 19:36

@shriramk@mastodon.social In the lambda silhouette one can almost imagine a fast bowler stepping forward, bending backward, about to unleash a zinger.

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@deech@mastodon.social 2026-01-17 19:45

@shriramk@mastodon.social I had to look this up but it's appropriate how the song this is parodying is only 4 years older than Scheme.

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@djl@mastodon.mit.edu 2026-01-18 01:08

@shriramk@mastodon.social Lambda: The Ultimate Declarative* Lambda: The Ultimate Imperative** Or as GLS would say: "To iterate is human, to recurse divine." *: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6091 **: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/5790

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@mnemenaut@mastodon.online 2026-01-18 11:43

@shriramk@mastodon.social Some of us were on time for the party... (AIM-349 is dated 22 December 1975) https://mastodon.online/@mnemenaut/115757442718169656

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