Re: Is Guile Useful to a Scheme Noob

2009-12-18 Thread Andrew C. Suttles
David Pirotte wrote (on Fri, 18 Dec 2009 at 11:52 -0200): > I have written 7 applications and 3 intranet web page 'generators' > industrially > used every day [some of them since many years]. Entirely written in scheme > [guile - > no C code], I intensively used ans still uses goops. They all c

Re: Is Guile Useful to a Scheme Noob

2009-12-18 Thread Andrew C. Suttles
Neil Jerram wrote (on Fri, 18 Dec 2009 at 00:42 +): [snip] > > Why not give Guile a quick try? I'm sure it should be able to interpret > SICP's code. > > Regards, > Neil Neil - Thanks for the encouragement. A helpful/informative post like this is just the nudge I needed to take t

Is Guile Useful to a Scheme Noob

2009-12-17 Thread Andrew C. Suttles
I know this is going to sound troll-ish, but I really don't mean for it to be. I have been an Emacs user for quite some time and I've learned to hack my way around ELSIP some. I'd like to make a structured attempt to learn LISP(ish) programming and read SICP (etc) and so I searched the net and ins