Re: [Chicken-users] Curious: why the name "Chicken Scheme"?

[Peter Bex]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:43:30PM -0400, John Gabriele wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I looked around the wiki but did not see an answer to this. Just
> curious: why is it named "Chicken Scheme"? :)

It used to be part of the Frequently Asked Questions in the manual:
https://wiki.call-cc.org/man/3/faq#why-call-it-chicken

I don't know why this FAQ item was removed for the Chicken 4 manual.

Cheers,
Peter
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