Re: JScheme

2009-11-18 Thread patrickdlogan
There are other lisps (including schemes) but the three I have some experience with are JScheme, SISC, and Clojure. Based on that I would answer it this way... * Use SISC if you want a full implementation of Scheme on the JVM. (It's been reliable in the past but I have not used it for a coup

Re: JScheme

2009-11-17 Thread Fogus
My history man be wrong, but wasn't JScheme the original starting point for DotLisp? http://dotlisp.sourceforge.net/dotlisp.htm -m -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@google

Re: JScheme

2009-11-17 Thread Jeff Heon
Well, what are your needs or objectives? If you just want to do Scheme on top of Java, JScheme will be fine. The rationale behind Clojure is functional programming and concurrency: http://clojure.org/rationale For a more comprehensive answer, I'll let the man himself speaks 8) Rich d

JScheme

2009-11-17 Thread Michael Jaaka
Can anyone defend Clojure in comparision to JScheme? I want to see all pros why to learn Clojure instead of JScheme. I've found out that the java methods invocation and rest of syntax is very similar, which satisfies me since it is easier to work with lisp family languages. -- You received