According to a draft statement, Scheme is to be split into a small and a large language, the small being designed for educators and "50-page purists", the large for "programmers, implementors".
The small language should remain true to the language design precepts found in the RnRS introduction ("Programming languages should be designed not by piling feature on top of feature, …").
But what about the large one?
Will it drop continuations, become a Lisp-2, and challenge Common Lisp?
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