Embedded Scheme

Why the fuck did bash/vim have to make up their own languages instead of using a pre-existing one, like, say, Scheme? No, I have to waste time learning your toy language's syntax. Seriously, if Scheme was designed to be simple and elegant, why isn't it used more often as an embedded scripting language?

>>5
I often think it's strange that the people who like ruby "because it's terse" are the same ones that claim perl is too complicated. I prefer descriptive function names to syntax, but then again, I use a decent editor that will complete my symbol names. You can get the syntax with macros if you want, I used to used one like

(dict 'foo => "bar" : 'baz => "quux")
for writing hashtables.

>>10
Not surprising really, since they still can't be bothered to agree on what constitutes OO in a language.