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It's more an issue of how much 'common vocabulary' folks who are interested in a subject share. If you're 'into' Scheme, you probably know many implementations, including Guile, Gambit, and Chicken. And also versions inside Racket, and Scheme48, and ...

True, for someone coming at this who's not Scheme-implementation-familiar, the names might as well be Zaphod, or Beeblebrox, or similar-seeming nonsense.

It seems in any 'domain' there is a set of definitions that is assumed in that domain. That is, I don't see any real problem with naming here.




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