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by j_baker 5862 days ago
I don't think I would call scheme "web-oriented".
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It may not be common to refer to it as such, but the PLT Scheme guys see the web as the killer app for Scheme's continuations:

http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/kh...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation#Continuations_in_W...

So maybe the new name comes from the fact that you serve with it.