Kyle R. Burton on 23 Apr 2008 06:39:12 -0700 |
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:17 PM, JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org> wrote: > I also found running the following command on Debian or Ubuntu rather > interesting: > > $ apt-cache search lisp | egrep '^cl-|^clisp|^cltl|^onlisp|^sbcl' \ > | sort | less --quit-if-one-screen The only thing to keep in mind is that those packages can be behind a bit wrt the most current versions of the tools and libraries. There are a lot of libraries available in apt though, which is encouraging. > Not to mention what you get from $ apt-cache search scheme With respect to Scheme, Dr. Scheme (PLT) is highly regarded: http://www.plt-scheme.org/ PLT has a lot of libraries and the IDE is supposed to be very polished. I think it might be what Arc is built on top of. The other Lisp/Scheme I'd recommend looking at is Clojure: http://clojure.org/ Clojure isn't common-lisp not is it an R5RS (or R6RS) Scheme either. That being said, it has a lot going for it: - runs on the JVM, so it's easy to start using, has access to a lot of libraries (jdk, jakarta, etc), its easy to get it embedded into Java applicaitons - lazy evaluation semantics along with some other FP concepts (like Haskell) - it includes an Actors style concurrency library (I think this is meant to be like Erlang's concurrency/distribution model) Kyle ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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