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by neilv 2496 days ago
Yes, I don't see any mention of trickery in the article. For the record, capital-R Racketeers do not condone trickery.
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That's a surprise! It sounds like the first in its line. As Wikipedia says:

> Scheme was originally called "Schemer", in the tradition of other Lisp-derived languages such as Planner or Conniver.

If there's any programming language family which condones trickery, I would think this would be it.

Whatever the goals of all the Scheming, it doesn't seem to have involved monetary wealth. :)
I interpret the "double "scare quotes"" in the title as suggesting cheeky sarcasm.
(In case future readers are confused, the original HN title had odd nested double-quotes, and the innermost quoted part was something like "how I tricked my employer into using Racket". Which seemed like terrible PR, giving the impression that this is something for irresponsible fringe fanatics.)