On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 05:57:32PM +0200, Joachim Schipper wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 04:14:40PM +0200, Andreas V?gele 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). > > 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), 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). > > Joachim
Last time I looked at it, Chicken did not allow use of syntax-rules and friends in the interpreter, only in the compiler. Is that still true? If learning scheme includes learning to write macros, not having that in the interpreter might be a problem, depending on how you like to work. -- Mike Small [EMAIL PROTECTED]
