Re: lightweight languages

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      Scheme (and not just Scheme, of course) lets you do CPS
      perspicuously.  That does not mean you have to do it,

   You're presenting this from the point of view of a writer of code,
   whereas I am taking the point of view of a reader of code.  If Scheme
   programmers typically make heavy use of CPS and call/cc stuff, perhaps
   because that's how they were taught to program, then as a reader I
   don't have the choice you're talking about.

Yeah, but we *don't* use CPS & call/cc for your average, everyday code.
I'm a fairly experienced Scheme programmer, and when *I* run into CPS or
call/cc, I assure I have to drop into low gear.

Writing Scheme doesn't imply using call/cc! I like a language that makes
the easy things simple, and the hard things possible. Call/cc is one of the
tools that makes the hard things possible. You don't invoke it to reverse
a list or glob a file name.
    -Olin