I know Scheme, use Racket, I'm learning Haskell and I have SML/NJ installed.
Scheme is a Lisp.
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Anonymous2011-06-25 2:43
I studied CS at UC Berkeley where we used Scheme a great deal. It's pretty fucking awesome and can do a lot of impressive things, but I haven't used it at all since I've graduated.
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Because Lisp is a jewish language, ``in Lisp'' troll.
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Anonymous2011-06-25 8:54
>>10
Nope. Some Lisps (among them Refal and XML) appeared independently of McCarthy.
LISt Processing isn't a language, it's a concept. You can't copyright it or prefix expressions.
If there are aliens, they most have some variant of Lisp.
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Anonymous2011-06-25 8:55
>>11 If there are aliens, they most likely have some variant of Lisp.
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Anonymous2011-06-25 9:26
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>If there are aliens, they most have some variant of Lisp.
Aliens exist, unfortunately. They are Jews coming from nonsense infinite universe. They have corrupted Mother Russia with Set Theory, Communism and Vodka which are the three main reasons why I'm an ugly peasant with manure beneath my fingernails.
The beauty of scheme is its minimalism. It's problem is its minimalism. Try and count the common ways to express looping in scheme. Most curly-brace languages use for and while for loops, while scheme has explicit tail calls, named let, do macros, and continuations. This does tend to make scheme write-only for non-trivial programs, unless one finds this maxim enlightening: every sufficiently-commented scheme program contains an ML program in its comments.