From: darren kirby <bulliver@...>
Date: 2006-09-05T09:56:36+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] similar resources for Lisp/Scheme

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quoth the Chad Perrin:
> 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.

=46or scheme:
http://schemers.org/ is an excellant source to start with, and #scheme on=20
freenode is full of friendly, helpful people.

Personally, I have been using the video lectures[1] and online textbook[2]=
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from the first year MIT Comp-Sci course "Structure and Interpretation of=20
Computer Programs" which is taught entirely in scheme to, well, teach mysel=
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scheme...might be too slow if you already have the compsci basics down.=20

If you want a whole IDE sort of thing for scheme then drscheme is a good=20
choice, if you are more like me and just want a console interpreter then th=
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best I have found is gambit, which has readline support and command history=
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much like irb. mzscheme, chicken, guile, and others don't have the readline=
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support, which makes them tedious to experiment with.

[1] http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/
[2] http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-4.html#%_toc_start

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darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org
"...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..."
=2D Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972

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