@kentpitman wrote quite some time ago:
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I often do binary partitions of languages (like the static/dynamic split, but more exotic), and one of them is whether they are leading or following, let's say.
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But, and this is where I wanted to get to, Scheme led on continuations. That's a hard problem and while it's possible, it's still difficult.
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In the early days of Lisp, the choice to do dynamic memory management was very brave.
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Is this related to Worse Is Better?

(I suppose it may be unusual to apply the latter to the Lisp family of languages, but nevertheless.)

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