GNU Guile 2.0.9 released (lists.gnu.org)

Why? Loops in general are quite easy to do in Scheme, specially the "for-each" variety.

"The most brightest programmers", if bothered by the lack of a C-like for construct, would be able to fix that, for them and for others, in 5 minutes with a macro.

Scheme is easy and incredibly powerful. Its only issue is that knowledge in other languages does not necessarily translate directly to it. In other words, you have to take some time to learn, which is not a good thing nowadays with the instant gratification culture.

for-each? http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/SRFI_002d...

or how about a named let?

  (let loop ((i 0))
    (if (< i 10)
        (display "hello\n")
        (loop (1+ i))))

  (use-modules (srfi srfi-42))
  (do-ec (: i 10) (display "hello\n"))

    for(i=0;i<max;i++) {
       ...
    }

    (do ((i 0 (+ i 1)))
        ((>= i max))
        ...)

    for(VAR=INITIALIZER;CONDITION;VAR=INCREMENT)
    {
       BODY
    }
    return RETVAL;

    (do ((VAR INITIALIZER INCREMENT))
        ((not CONDITION) RETVAL)
       BODY)

It's a pretty trivial transformation -- not hard at all. I think these "most brightest" programmers just didn't want to learn the freakin' language.