Why Scheme rocks

Scheme is a modern Lisp dialect. It's what I program in for fun, and to learn new stuff.

Why is it so great? In a word, meta-programming. I can bend the language to my will.

For example, I have just added my own tracing to function definitions, without touching the insides of the function. Instead of using the built-in (define ...) I use my own 12-line* macro (define-with-trace ...). Now all I need to do is figure out how to redefine define.

Here is a more poetic endorsement.


* Plus 4 lines of auxiliary code.