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Bazaar is conspicuously missing. My guess is that "other" is mostly Bazaar. Aside: would've been neat to see a "version control by OS" pie chart for GNU/Linux.

Does creating a "startup" entail creating a real business entity (such as an LLC), including tax id number, special bank account, and so forth? Or does simply putting an interestin…

Racket and Common Lisp seem way more difficult than Python. I learned Python in a very short amount of time, and it was very easy (it's just functions, classes, C-like syntax, and …

> in such a way that you can apply it to any language After working through some of SICP, would you recommend then using Scheme for practical projects?

Pandoc lets you write in a slightly (and tastefully) enhanced Markdown, but also lets you drop down to write LaTeX macros if you like.

You might just use Pandoc. It happens to use LaTeX behind the scenes to create pdf's, but there's nothing that says it must do so in the future.

> Its darwinian I think you're correct, but that there are trade-offs. Take Python, for example. They have "batteries included", and when modules make it into the std lib, they pre…

In what ways is Guile different from other Schemes, such as Gambit and Chicken? Is Guile a good Scheme to start off with when first learning Scheme?

Thanks for those equivalents, Sam! Informative. That first `(map #...)` is particularly interesting. Looks like you're applying the item lookup operation across the list of indices…

Thanks for the reply, Sam. To provide some small examples, I often use Perl, and it gives me some syntax that saves me typing, such as: * `my @other_list = @a_list[3, 1, 4]` to ret…

Like many folks, I'd reckon, I've really meant to learn Lisp or Scheme better, but it just seems like -- with the lack of syntax -- it would be tedious to write out every single op…