A reddit user by the name of alanshutko stated what was necessary to make Scheme, Common Lisp, Haskell, and other non-mainstream languages more appealing to the average programmer.
Compare that with the types of simple programs we see in Perl and Python. "I have a bunch of files, and I want to rename them all according to some pattern." Common problem, easy solution. "I've got a log file full of email addresses, I need to strip them out from the log entries, remove duplicates, and add them to a database." Again, fairly simple, fairly small, really useful. When Haskell can compete on those types of problems, it'll be easier to induce people to learn it. (Same with CL, my fav language....)
So here is a Scheme program that does this. It is written to use MzScheme because that's the only Scheme I have installed in Windows at the moment. Thus, it takes advantage of PLaneT and the other libraries that come with MzScheme.
Hopefully this can convince others that Scheme is a good language for common tasks.
