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Scheme or Common Lisp?

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-22 9:02

Yes, it's a “which programming language to leran ???” thread, but this time it's ...more specific I guess?

So I already know C and Perl and wish to acquaint myself with other paradigms than the procedural and object-oriented ones I've become uncomfortably familiar with (i.e., functional). I also intend to learn Haskell at some point in the future in order to complete the holy trinity of syntaxes.

So, /anus/. Regarding the thread title, what are the differences that you find make you prefer one Lisp dialect to another? Is there even much of a difference? Or did you just choose one as your way of saying, “I've read SICP”?

Name: Anonymous 2010-07-22 18:45

>>1
I prefer Scheme, but if you learn one switching to the other shouldn't be too difficult.
>>9
There's no obligation to use emacs with Scheme or Lisp, it's just what a lot of us use. You could try ARSE, it's a work-in-progress vi-a-like that comes with s9fes and Neils Holm is looking for feedback, but you can use gedit, or whatever. I even think there is a scheme plugin for Eclipse
>>11
racket-lang.org

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