From: Chad Perrin Date: 2006-09-05T09:53:03+09:00 Subject: Re: [OT] similar resources for Lisp/Scheme On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 09:43:28AM +0900, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > > > 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. I was looking at CMUCL with interest before you sent this, but . . . > > 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. . . . this has prompted me to take a second look at SBCL. Is it entirely backward-compatible? Does it provide the same additional functionality (debugger, et cetera)? How, technically, do CMUCL and SBCL differ, in general? I ask in case you have the answers off the top of your head. If not, no biggie -- I'm on my way to look up more information about SBCL so I can compare them now. > > 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. I do have Guile installed, though only because I intentionally installed it about a year ago. I make a point of knowing what's on my computer, which means doing minimal installs rather than default kitchen sink desktop installs, then building from there via the package manager. As such, there wasn't any default Guile installation. Speaking of communities -- do you know of any mailing lists akin to ruby-talk, or open community websites akin to PerlMonks? What about beginner mailing lists? Extensive searching has turned up exactly one general-purpose Common Lisp mailing list thus far, and I don't know anything about the list yet beyond that. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] "The first rule of magic is simple. Don't waste your time waving your hands and hopping when a rock or a club will do." - McCloctnick the Lucid