Joachim Schipper writes: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 04:14:40PM +0200, Andreas Vögele wrote: >> [...] >> I haven't made any progress on the CLISP port. Gambit-C and PLT >> Scheme look more promising. I'll probably use one of these Scheme >> implementations instead of CLISP. > > FWIW, gambit is very easy to install, with or without termite; I > ./configure; install-ed the latest 4.0 beta and it appears to work > just fine (on i386).
Yes, that's why I'm considering Gambit-C. PLT Scheme also seems to work fine on i386 when configured with --enable-cgcdefault and --disable-gl. > If you are just learning, though, I don't really see the benefit of > Gambit; sure, it's fast, and sure, Termite is cool (if not necessarily > useful), I do most of my programming in C and Perl but am looking for a Scheme or Lisp implementation that I can use for prototyping and exploration. A good FFI as well as portability to lots of architectures and operating systems is important. I'm also considering Ruby and Erlang but I kind of like Scheme :-) > but Chicken works for most purposes and is in ports. And it has a > lot more bindings to libraries available (slib and snow are > interesting, but implementation-agnostic and thus don't contain FFI > stuff, which is a lot of what you need for web-app-ish things, for > instance). Hm, the last time I looked at Chicken I didn't like the FFI very much. But, looking at Chicken's web site, it seems that much more mappings from C to Scheme types are now available. IIRC early versions of Chicken completely lacked mappings to fixed size types like uint32_t.
