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"I am not a Church numeral; I am a free variable!"
The Scheme Underground is a new effort starting between LCS and the AI Lab to develop useful software packages in Scheme for use by research projects and for distribution on the net.
We want to take over the world. The internet badly needs a public domain software environment that allows the rapid construction of software tools using a modern programming language. Our goal is to build such a system using Scheme 48, an ultra-portable Scheme implementation which is easily interfaced to existing software written in other languages.
A major emphasis of this effort will to create a hacker culture that teaches and encourages elegant coding style. People working on this project will be expected to be mature enough to allow other people to constructively critique their code. They should also be mature enought to critique others' code in a constructive and professional manner. This project will give you the opportunity to learn good coding style from highly experienced Scheme programmers, many of whom helped define the language.