Is it a coincidence Scheme rhymes with meme?
>>54481326
Yeah, but why the hell did they call their language scheme?
How do you implement a hashmap in Scheme?
>>54481561
using the vector primitive and a hash function to map to the indeces
and you grow the vector whenever you need to
>>54481465
So that it would rhyme with meme
>>54481465
it used to be schemer in the beginning, but the r fell off for some reason
>>>54481465 'diagram, outline'
The Scheme dialect (1970) predates the noun meme (1976).
And meme as an adjective is a recent development.
>>54481600
Doesn't answer my question
>>54481612
Why was it called schemer?
>>54481617
Doesn't answer my question
>>>54481633 Why was it called schemer?
Every trendy Lisp-like at the time ended in "-er",
they changed it to Scheme because MIT's ITS OS couldn't put 7 letters in a filename.
>Doesn't answer my question
Reading comprehension.
>'diagram, outline'
see >>54481326
>>54481633
Planner, Conniver, Racket, Swindle
>>54481787
>'diagram, outline'
How is that relevant? Someone chose the name schemer. Who? Why?
>>54481885
Yes, those are synonyms
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