Marek Kubica wrote: > > Scheme does > only provides only HOP (runs only on Bigloo) and the stuff that PLT > Scheme comes with. > HOP is so cool! As long as you want to program in the Bigloo implementation of Scheme. http://hop.inria.fr/ It won the Open Source Software Competition at ACM Multimedia 2007. I saw Manuel Serrano's presentation at the Montreal Scheme and Lisp User Group last fall. Everybody was blown away. > The feature and problem with Scheme is that it has been traditionally > tiny, so it is hard to write useful code that is implementation > independent (And also the implementations just aren't very compatible with each other Common Lisp implementations are actually quite good about this, as far as the language spec goes. Language extensions, however are idiosyncratic.) > so you often have a hard time to find libraries that you > need (for example datetime - as far as I have seen only SCSH seems to > have facilities to calculate with dates). Usually I'd recommend PLT > Scheme which comes with batteries included and has a Cheeseshop > equivalent called PLaneT where you can find some more libraries that > might help you. > Indeed. But HOP probably won't work with it. > > Common Lisp has the great SLIME extension, whereas Scheme has DrScheme > which is also a reasonably good Scheme editor with some nifty features. > PLT Scheme has DrScheme; I don't know whether it runs in other Schemes.
-- Dan > Now, the conclusion is... use what fits your mind better. Maybe I am > talking too much about it, I should better try to continue building > some real programs :) > > regards, > Marek > _______________________________________________ > Gardeners mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners > > -- ________________________________________ Daniel Weinreb [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://danweinreb.org/blog/ http://ilc2009.scheming.org/ _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
