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by wtetzner 3839 days ago
> scheme is not powerfull either

In what sense is Scheme not powerful? It has TCO, syntax-rules, call/cc, etc.

Of course, all of those are things scheme has that JavaScript doesn't.
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1ris 3839 days ago
No types, a very minimal syntax, a standard library so slim that everything interesting is a implementation-detail. And, as I a said, javascript has less. Javascript even lacks integer variables, while scheme has the numeric tower. (Although that is not required by rsr4/rsr5 and that what most implementations care about)
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wtetzner 3839 days ago
> No types, a very minimal syntax

I don't see how these make the language less powerful. Especially the syntax part, which plays a big part in Scheme's power, as an enabler for macros.

> a standard library so slim

I agree with this though.

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