On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 11:58 PM, nubis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everybody, > I recently came across plt scheme, through Common Lisp, I've never got a > chance to work with common lisp, I'm mostly a python web guy. But when I > found Scheme my first thought was "this is a 'real world' lisp", I know > I can find the differences between them STFW (already found some of > them), but I want your informated subjective opinion. What are the > biggest differences technical and culturally between Common Lisp and Plt > Scheme. Which kind of people uses each one?
Both Common Lisp and Scheme are great languages and I think it is mostly a question of what you would prefer. I started with Scheme and after a few years of doing almost nothing with it I gave Common Lisp a try. I haven't done much with it either, but still it's closer to my tastes. For me the biggest hurdle with Scheme was there are a bunch of good implementations and a bunch of good libraries, but the libraries weren't very portable. But this was a few years back, and now PLT really looks like a great Scheme with great libraries, so it shouldn't be a problem any more. You could try learning just enough of both languages, and see which one fits your tastes better. Use it for some time and give the other a second chance: at the very least it won't hurt. For CL starting with Practical Common Lisp[1] seems like a safe bet. I guess Schemers can give a good advise where to start with it. I started with SICP[2] and was blown away, but many people don't like it that much. Have fun. Ivan > > > And also I don't like this list to be so quiet, I know most members know > lots of things I would like to know myself, please share :) > > ----nubis :) > http://woobiz.com.ar > [1] http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book [2] http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ -- "...Please don't assume Lisp is only useful for Animation and Graphics, AI, Bioinformatics, B2B and E-Commerce, Data Mining, EDA/Semiconductor applications, Expert Systems, Finance, Intelligent Agents, Knowledge Management, Mechanical CAD, Modeling and Simulation, Natural Language, Optimization, Research, Risk Analysis, Scheduling, Telecom, and Web Authoring just because these are the only things they happened to list." -- Kent Pitman _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
