Heist (Scheme in Ruby) 0.2 adds proper list support, better documentation

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10 pointsionfish5 comments

...running in JRuby in VMWare on an EC2 instance for an abstraction on an abstraction on an abstraction on an abstraction on an abstraction.

That made my day :)

Funny, how the more powerful and elegant a language is, the easier it is to implement.

True. With scheme, you'd only need to implement the core forms to get started: (LAMBDA, SET!, IF, DEFINE & QUOTE)

There is no correlation with 'powerful' and it's only natural that elegant languages are easier to implement.