I don't have broad experience with various Lisps, but I have also done some programming in Scheme and Common Lisp.
You can program in a functional style in both, or in an imperative style in both. In Scheme, functional style is a bit more idiomatic, so you will find more examples of functional style code written in Scheme than you will in Common Lisp, on average. That makes it a bit closer in idiomatic style to Clojure than Common Lisp is. I can't speak to the awesomeness of the Scheme community, but they do have lots of on line documentation, and in the last 5-8 years or so they have taken the small "core" of scheme defined by the revised^5 report on Scheme (R5RS) and also version 6, and extended it with "SRFIs", Scheme Requests For Implementation. These are often libraries of useful functionality. http://srfi.schemers.org There are many different Scheme implementations. PLT Scheme might be a good one to start with, in terms of the amount of example code and documentation that comes with it. I believe it implements many of the SRFIs, as well as extensions of its own. Andy On Dec 20, 12:31 pm, Sean Devlin <francoisdev...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > After hacking Clojure for a while, I've come to the conclusion that > studying a second Lisp would help. So, what do the people here > think? What is a good Lisp to study? Are there particular dialects & > distributions that are interesting? The things that are important to > me are: > > A community at least 1/10th as awesome as this one. Seriously. > Libs in Lisp - I want to see if there are ideas worth stealing. > Available documentation - I have to be able to read about it, and > teach myself online. > > Thanks, > Sean -- 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
