Today, Jeffry Smith gleaned this insight:
> LISP heavily uses recursion, which is why it snarfs up memory
> (actually, you don't have to use recursion, but it is extremely well
> suited to using it). GNOME uses GUILE, another variant (although I
> haven't found the differences) as it's code to tie things together.
Guile is an implementation of scheme (a lisp variant) which can be embeded
in applications and can be used either via interpreter or to produce
compiled programs, IIRC. How that differs from lisp, I don't really know,
having very little experience with lisp itself, and that which I did have
was oh, maybe 15 years ago.
> For those who want to play with it, I'm relearning LISP via Scheme, a
> variant of it, using the book _The Scheme Programming Language_ by R.
> Kent Dybvig. So far, all the examples run under GUILE.
Which makes sense, given the above. I've got a good book on scheme, which
I would offer up, but I can't remember what it's called and I don't have
it nearby. Sorry.
--
You know that everytime I try to go where I really want to be,
It's already where I am, cuz I'm already there...
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