On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:30 AM, carti<[email protected]> wrote:
> I thought of giving a try for the fun of it. Just want to learn on my own > whenever I get free time. It has to be something with this climate. Even I started on lisp (3rd lisp I am learning). > Can some experts suggest which one is better(Scheme or LISP), in terms of: > 1. More commonly used > 2. More practical > 3. Easy to learn > 4. Usefullness if I learn Well, I have done 3 lisps (bigloo [scheme], sbcl[common lisp] and elisp). Of the 3, the easiest to grasp was scheme. Common lisp is great on performance and 1 site I visited told me that scheme did not support big number crunching and large amounts of data but CL did. elisp was too domain specific. I suggest you do common lisp with http://gigamonkeys.com/book/ . Usage Practicality Ease Usefulness CL 9 10 7 8 Scheme 7 6 9 7 el 8 6 8 9 guile 9 9 7 10 --- Ashok `ScriptDevil` _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
