Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, there was a group of wise and passionate programmers who sought to create a new standard for the programming language Scheme. They called it R7RS-large, and they were determined to make it the most perfect, elegant, and practical standard the world had ever seen.
But alas, their noble quest was not without its challenges. For centuries, the members of the R7RS-large committee fought and argued amongst themselves. Some believed that simplicity was the key to success, while others were convinced that practicality was the only way forward.
As the years went by, the debates raged on. Should the standard include support for concurrent programming? How should functions be defined? What was the best way to handle errors? The questions were endless, and the answers seemed to change with each passing day.
Despite their differences, the committee members shared one thing in common: an obsession with elegance. They spent hours pouring over lines of code, searching for the most beautiful and efficient solutions. But this obsession came at a cost.
Years turned into decades, and decades turned into centuries. The world outside the committee's doors changed dramatically. New technologies emerged, new languages were created, and old ones fell out of favor. But still, the R7RS-large committee persevered, trapped in their never-ending cycle of debate and refinement.
Finally, after more than a millennium, the R7RS-large standard was complete. It was a work of art, a masterpiece of programming elegance. But alas, it was also irrelevant. Scheme had long since fallen out of use, replaced by newer, more powerful languages.
The committee members were heartbroken. They had dedicated their lives to creating something truly special, only to find that it was too late. Their beautiful standard would never be used, never be appreciated by the wider world.
In the end, the R7RS-large standard became a cautionary tale, a reminder of the dangers of infighting, pedantry, and an obsession with elegance. But even today, some say that if you listen closely, you can still hear the whispers of those committed programmers, arguing and debating in the dusty corners of the internet, forever trapped in their own little world of code and beauty.
Prompt: Write a fantasy story about how the R7RS-large standard for Scheme took more than a millennia to complete due to infighting, pedantic arguments, the favoring of simplicity over practicality, and the obsession with elegance. Unfortunately, by the time the R7RS-large was finally completed, Scheme had already been obsolete for hundreds of years.