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systems on Aug 11, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google App Inventor uses Scheme under the hood

They didn't use Scheme because it was complex, they used it because it was simple.

jodrellblank on Aug 12, 2009 [–]

Maybe... that wasn't in the list of reasons given. What if they had Miguel de Icaza and an existing C#/Mono -> android platform available?

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