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Everyone wishes their language could have something analogous to the CPAN. But before you can have that you need some standardization and community agreement in place regarding how modules are to work and be packaged up.
> too much variation among the various flavors of Scheme which fragments the community
> lacks good language constructs for managing large software projects
It seems that those points are being recognized and worked on very seriously in R7RS. See http://www.scheme-reports.org/
> Instead of pouring a lot of effort into Scheme, let it stay an academic language.
Well, the "Little" Scheme (working group 1) should still fit that bill. And the "Big" Scheme (working group 2) is supposed to fix the above problems you mentioned.
I don't want to write yet another web app. I want to write actual apps that run right on the device (or at least on a VM on the device). And as a user, I usually only use webapps when no good alternatives are available.
> I guess what I'm saying is just this: all the cries of "software freedom!!" as though it were a revolutionary political struggle ring hollow to me.
There is a struggle going on. Now, whether or not people choose to see it is another matter.
Now, the complexity of the whole system, that's what I have a problem with.
Otherwise, it's beautiful.
For a while I tried reading all my docs in pdf instead of html. After that I tried using the various latex-to-html tools, but wasn't really crazy about any of them.
Somewhere along the way I must've gotten lazy or something, and now just use Markdown which works nicely for me.