If Scheme is so good why MIT drops it?

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Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
> On Monday 27 July 2009 16:49:25 Aahz wrote:
>> In article <mailman.3765.1248685391.8015.python-list at python.org>,
>>
>> Hendrik van Rooyen  <hendrik at microcorp.co.za> wrote:
>>> On Sunday 26 July 2009 21:26:46 David Robinow wrote:
>>>>  I'm a mediocre programmer. Does this mean I should switch to PHP?
>>> I have searched, but I can find nothing about this mediocre language.
>>>
>>> Could you tell us more?
>>>
>> :-P
>>
>> (For anyone who is confused by Hendrik's humor, he is saying that David
>> was referring to a programming language named "mediocre".  English
>> grammar is confusing!)
> 
> This is true - I intended, when I started the post, to make a crack about
> how he knew that he was mediocre - If there were some exam or test
> that you have to pass or fail to be able to make the claim to mediocrity.
> I was imagining a sort of devil's rating scale for programmers, that
> could cause one to say things like:  "I am studying hard so that I can
> get my mediocre certificate, and one day I hope to reach hacker rank".
> 
> And then the similarity to "I am a COBOL programmer" struck me, 
> and I abandoned the ratings.
> 
If you were a "COBOL" programmer, would you want to shout about it? :-)