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I wonder why it's called 'Owl Lisp' instead of 'Owl Scheme'. Could make a funny parallel to Chicken Scheme.

KineticLensman 8 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Perhaps it's some sort of Web Ontology Language (OWL) [0]. Or a reference to Winnie the Pooh, as in "Owl took Christopher Robin's notice from Rabbit and looked at it nervously. He could spell his own name WOL, and he could spell Tuesday so that you knew it wasn't Wednesday" [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Ontology_Language#Acronym

[1] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A._A._Milne

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binary132 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I suppose because it is not a Scheme and is a Lisp. :)

	▲	Pet_Ant an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It is a Scheme: > Owl Lisp is a functional dialect of the Scheme programming language. It is mainly based on the applicative subset of the R7RS standard.
	▲	xdavidliu an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		it's right in the title of this thread, which comes from the project information of the repo