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by ken 2490 days ago
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.

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Whatever the goals of all the Scheming, it doesn't seem to have involved monetary wealth. :)