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Dev is asked why it's called "Plunder"
TBH this is the first time I've heard of a Scheme named after the notorious Soviet dictator. What's next, a Lisp called Hitler?
it’s weird that they omitted the historical MIT projects that led to scheme (PLANNER, Conniver, SCHEME(r, they ran into a filename length limit when implementing)) but found time to mention an obscure Lisp with no impact that stopped updating 16 years ago
maybe cause in the actual historical context of Lisp-1 names, “plunder” doesn’t even fit the pattern