[CM] S7 on Hacker News

[Iain Duncan]

Thanks Bill, I hope it brings some new users to s7!

"only a couple of orders more magnitude more work" - classic comment.
Doesn't that just sum up much of our lives? :-)

iain

On Thu, Feb 5, 2026 at 10:20 AM <bil at ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:

> The HN discussion looks great to me -- thanks for the
> kind words!  On Slime, isn't that dependent on r6rs?
> I also looked into LSP possibilities (emacs has a
> server I think), but I got side-tracked.  Back in
> around 1989, I looked at CL and Emacs Lisp, before
> choosing Guile for Snd.  At that time, CL very much wanted
> to be the "main program", and Emacs Lisp was not
> easily detached from Emacs.  Eventually Guile
> also chose to be the main program, so I decided
> to write my own Scheme.  It was only a couple of
> orders of magnitude more work than I thought it
> would be, and I'm still working on it!
>
>
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