From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2006-09-05T10:01:51+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] similar resources for Lisp/Scheme

On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 09:56:36AM +0900, darren kirby wrote:
> 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.
> 
> For scheme:
> http://schemers.org/ is an excellant source to start with, and #scheme on 
> freenode is full of friendly, helpful people.

That's good to know.  I usually try to avoid public IRC channels unless
someone indicates that it's "full of friendly, helpful people" or
something to that effect, since IRC channels are all too often full of
combative, ornery people.  Now that I've gotten a good review of #scheme
I'll actually give it a shot.


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

In my experience, having the CS basics down does not mean going over
them again in a new language is a waste of time.  I'm sure I'll learn
something new (in addition to Scheme).


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

Thanks.  I was familiar with drscheme, mzscheme, and guile before today,
but gambit's a new one on me.  I'll have a look.

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