From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-09-05T09:43:28+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] similar resources for Lisp/Scheme

Chad Perrin wrote:
> I know this is terribly off-topic, but . . .
> 
> What resources can youse guys recommend for Common Lisp and/or Scheme?
> In particular, I'm looking for community-related websites, mailing
> lists, and generally accepted Good Resources available for free on the
> Internet.  Feel free to email me off-list if you think this is too
> off-topic to address here.
> 
Well ... in the Open Source world there are four major Common Lisps:
CMUCL, Clisp, GCL and SBCL. Google will get you the rest of the way. All
run on Linux and a couple of them run on Windows and possibly Macs.

If I had to pick one of the four, it would be SBCL. It's the youngest of
the four, a cleanup/rewrite of CMUCL with a quite vigorous community.

I don't know all that much about Scheme other than the linguistic
differences between Scheme and Common Lisp. The most
commonly-encountered open source Scheme is Guile. Scheme48 and DrScheme
are two others that I've installed, but I'm not a member of any Scheme
communities so I can't really compare them. If you have a modern Linux
distro (or CygWin) you probably have Guile already.