If you're going to try the straight Scheme avenue, you might try the Gambit implementation, which is touted as very fast. http://dynamo.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
A good way to good if you already use Emacs as your IDE. For something different but still Scheme based, there is JazzScheme which comes with its own IDE: It embraces both fonctional and OO programming and has an optional type system (with type inference.) That might be already intriguing for you (or revolting 8p ) See the complete feature list http://www.jazzscheme.org/features.htm#features.jazz I has a google discussion group and Freenode channel. It's also open-source and used commercially. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en