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From: George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net>
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Subject: Re: X in every language syndrome
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2024 11:53:16 -0400
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On 12 Jul 2024 15:37:33 GMT, Nils M Holm <nmh@sraddha.invalid> wrote:

>George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> wrote:
>> On Fri, 12 Jul 2024 07:19:47 -0400, George Neuner
>> <gneuner2@comcast.net> wrote:
>> 
>>>[*] The R3RS document is not dated (that I can find), but I was using
>>>an R3RS implementation in grad school in the early 90's.
>> 
>> I think by the time I was leaving grad school in '93 they were up to
>> R5RS already.
>
>Interesting, the R3RS indeed has no date. The RRRS is dated 1985 and
>the R4RS 1991. In think R3RS may have been 1986 or 1987. FWIW, I see
>no date later than 1986 in the references. Then there was a long break
>between R4 and R5. R5RS appeared in 1998.

I defer to your knowledge of the history.  8-)

I thought it was an R5 I was using because it had syntax-rules, but
re-reading the R_RS docs, I see that R4 could have had them as an
extension.