Atheists in 1999 might have to go Usenet comp.lang.scheme to find Scheme experts.
(Scheme polo shirt at church in 1999? My first guess is around Rice University. Second guess is Indiana.)
And of course MIT. https://archivesspace.mit.edu/repositories/2/archival_object...
I liked scheme as a learning tool and got highest grades. That doesn't change my impression that most of the sites covering it are mental masturbation. Puzzles, or programs for the sake of scheme itself. Where's the stuff to solve real world problems? (OK, mostly solved by other languages anyway... Still: where is the content that really wants a junior to try it out for routine problems and the senior tonstay with it?)
I'm not sure what you mean by "real world problems" but I think most would consider Cisco router firmware to be in that domain. In some sense, due to Cisco the Internet runs on two Lisp-like programming languages: Erlang and Chez.
If you look at TFA you'll find that it links over to a few articles that describe inventing a Scheme to solve things like high paced computer graphics production and large scale inventories.
What I meant was: where are the resources that teach how to tackle everyday chores? O'Reilly has a lot of "Real world <niche lang.>".
Not finished "practical" software -- albeit it's utterly cool to see that there are working projects in numbers / good showcases.
It's fine to have a collection for scheme (like the endless and sometimes helpful "awesome x" collections).
I'm missing the "Automate the boring stuff" and the like.
Maybe I'm more irritated about the lack of adoption (and grumpy about that -- not really the OP). E.g. I don't get it that Nix has more outreach than Guix, despite even Nix-users sometimes agree that the language isn't a strong selling point (I don't know about the idiosyncrasies of Guile, seemed preferable at first glance).
But for building makets of production systems to see where they are likely to fall over I've never found a better language.
The fact that you have to build everything from scratch is a plus when dealing with the eldrich horrors that lurk in business logic - you think you can use a standard queue? Hahaha let me tell you about a 6pm spike in latency that no one could explain and was driving the cellular network of a tier two city towards failure.
It's easy to teach any programmer Scheme sufficient for maintenance. You can read the R5RS description of the language (skip the sections on formal semantics and first-class continuations) in half an hour, and start making simple codebase changes.
Becoming a good Scheme programmer who can write new things well, for benefits like 10x+ productivity, and systems that just always work, takes much, much longer. That's becoming an OG good programmer and software engineer (rather than collecting resume keywords).
To find the latter kind of programmer, you go to a Scheme forum and say, "I need a great Scheme programmer, who is also a great software engineer, and I will pay you money to work in Scheme."
The nice thing about the Scheme community's aggressive inability to do practice advocacy is that there's very little noise like you get in employable languages.
For example, if you Google something about Scheme, there won't be a thousand redundant SEO 'tutorials' that were written in bad faith to attract eyeballs, rather than to fill a need and inform. (The closest Scheme comes to noise is when bloggers get a blog post out of trying Scheme, but most of the rest of it tends to be high quality relative to popular languages.)
> One day, however, I will point this page, when the friend asks me if Scheme is feasible for daily chores and a practical choice.
[0]: http://wiki.call-cc.org/man/5/Cross%20development#cross-deve...
I'm guessing it doesn't get much chatter due to INRIA being not very good at promotion of the stuff they do, and Bigloo doesn't have the academia-industry-matrimonial push that e.g. Pharo has received.
I think there's been some work lately to improve Chicken's Windows support.
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why? it's so good
https://practical-scheme.net/wiliki/schemexref.cgi?ChezSchem...
