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by bitwize 311 days ago
I remember a couple of (grayhat? oops, colored hats have "social history" and are verboten to speak of, like the "master" branch in git[0]) security researchers who developed a Scheme runtime and VM for malware payloads called Wasp. The skeevy 2000s adware company Direct Revenue also used TinyScheme.

[0] https://www.aswf.io/blog/inclusive-language/

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> grayhat? oops, colored hats have "social history" and are verboten to speak of

If this is a thing, I've never heard of anyone caring about it. No need to manufacture outrage at manufactured outrage.