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Funny, how the more powerful and elegant a language is, the easier it is to implement.



True. With scheme, you'd only need to implement the core forms to get started: (LAMBDA, SET!, IF, DEFINE & QUOTE)


There is no correlation with 'powerful' and it's only natural that elegant languages are easier to implement.




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