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Tag Archives: Scheme
The Vivid Schemer
Recursion always seems to cause beginning CS students trouble. One of the very best resources for learning and becoming comfortable with it is The Little Schemer. Although the exercises are in Scheme, they apply equally well to Common Lisp or … Continue reading
Chibi Scheme
I just ran across an update announcement for Chibi Scheme, a small Scheme intended to be used as an extension language for C programs. It supports the small R7RS language and can be configured at compile time to produce a … Continue reading
Stop!
Please. Stop. This. I’ve asked, nicely, previously. Now I’m getting annoyed. I’ve said it before: If you want Python, you know where to get it.
Arguments against call/cc
Pascal Constanza has a post that points us to an article by Oleg Kiselyow that argues against the call/cc function. Regular readers know that I am an admirer of call/cc so I’m not sure I agree with the idea that … Continue reading
A New PDF Version of SICP
Long time readers know of my love affair with Abelson & Sussman’s Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. I regard it as certainly one of the best and arguably the best computer science books ever written. MIT Press, in a … Continue reading
Scheme and Common Lisp
I’ve been using Scheme and Common Lisp almost exclusively for over 10 years. During that time, I tended to favor Scheme because I liked its clean design and simplicity, the named let, continuations, and the simplicity that being a Lisp-1 … Continue reading
Guile Fail
I have a set of guile scripts that I use to produce a rarely needed report. Today I tried to run the report and guile failed because it couldn’t find libltdl. No problem, I thought, it probably got wiped out … Continue reading
R7RS WG1 Update
Via Grant Rettke over at Wisdom and Wonder I found these slides from a talk at LispNYC by John Cowan on September 13. As readers from my old blog will recall, R7RS will be split into a “small Scheme” and … Continue reading
Scheme Versus Common Lisp
A lot has been written about Scheme versus Common Lisp and the subject has achieved holy war status much like that of the Emacs versus Vi crusades. I use and am happy with both. I like that Scheme is a … Continue reading
The Common Lisp Loop Macro
I don’t like the CL Loop macro. I’m not alone on that; Paul Graham isn’t a fan either. On the other hand, Peter Seibel has a more positive view of them. That two accomplished and intelligent Lispers can disagree on … Continue reading