More on Scheme

# re: More on Scheme

Tayssir John Gabbour
Posted @ 9/25/2005 1:34 PM
(I hope HTML is enabled...)

If you really like Scheme, here are some free video lectures: <a href="http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/">Abelson/Sussman</a> and <a href="http://www.aduni.org/courses/sicp/index.php?view=cw">ADUni</a>

Also, a favorite Common Lisp book is <a href="http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/">Practical Common Lisp</a>, a very modern treatment of Common Lisp.

# re: More on Scheme

Tayssir John Gabbour
Posted @ 9/25/2005 1:35 PM
Ok, the links to the videos are:
http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/
http://www.aduni.org/courses/sicp/index.php?view=cw

Practical Common Lisp:
http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/

# re: More on Scheme

Javier G. Lozano
Posted @ 9/25/2005 3:54 PM
Hi Don,

For our programming language course at Iowa State (http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~cs342) we used the following Scheme text resource:
http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/r5rs_toc.html

For our interpreter we used Chez Scheme:
http://www.scheme.com/chezscheme.html

What I'm looking for is a good .NET port for Scheme. Know of any?

# re: More on Scheme

Barry Perryman
Posted @ 9/26/2005 1:39 AM
Hi Don,

In addition to the good suggestions already, some more very good lisp books:

Paradigms of AI Programming, Peter Norvig.

This offers a guided history tour of AI, with lisp as the language of choice - although you also end up also implementing prolog to solve some logic programming problems, and a scheme interpreter/compiler to see how lisp is implemented in lisp.

On Lisp, Paul Graham.

This book covers macros in great depth, and uses them to implement some very interesting features. The book is hard to get hold of in a dead tree version, Amazon has one used copy for ~ $175, but you can download the PDF (minus a couple of illustrations that got lost) here:

http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html

# re: More on Scheme

Aarthi
Posted @ 9/26/2005 9:30 AM
"Teach yourself Scheme in fixnum days" by Dorai Sitaram is also a good read if you need to brush up Scheme concepts real quick. The PDF link for the ebook is here - www.cs.virginia.edu/~cwm2n/cs655/t-y-scheme.pdf

# Fresh Lisp/Scheme quotes

Ted Leung on the air
Posted @ 9/27/2005 12:53 AM
Don Box said "Scheme is Love", and supplied a nice reference list. In the OSAF IRC, PJE said "I'm beginning to believe that there is No Language But Lisp, and Python Is Its Prohpet. :)"

# re: More on Scheme

Blair
Posted @ 9/27/2005 8:13 AM
Go take a look at Scheme.NET at: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~jgrinbla/

# re: More on Scheme

Olivier Drolet
Posted @ 9/27/2005 12:46 PM
Since Lisp is admitedly cool, perhaps it might be possible for you to convince the powers that be at Microsoft to make the CLR friendlier wrt, say, Common Lisp and Scheme? The .NETification of Common Lisp appears to be currently quite penalizing.

# re: More on Scheme

Diego Vega
Posted @ 9/28/2005 9:11 AM
I wish my Lisp teacher at college could see all this. She was always so bitter about nobody really appreciating Lisp or Scheme.

# re: More on Scheme

Peter de Laat
Posted @ 9/28/2005 11:30 PM
A fun way to play around with Scheme using Visual Studio is to use Ken Rawlings Tachy. http://www.kenrawlings.com/archives/2005/08/12/new-tachy-release/

"Tachy is a Scheme-like (R5RS is the template, but not the goal) language that is being developed in C# for the .NET framework "

I recently made a Visual Studio extension to be able to debug Scheme programs with VS. Ken has included that in the current version of Tachy.

# 'Scheme is Love' [via MSDN and Don Box]

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Posted @ 10/1/2005 12:53 PM
{ End Bracket }: Scheme Is Love -- MSDN Magazine, October 2005 If you have ever experienced Don Box live and in person you'll know what I mean when I say you could very well be in for a real treat. For example, in this picture he has taken a kinda-sorta rendition of "It's the end of the world as...

# re: More on Scheme

Dave Pawson.
Posted @ 10/3/2005 7:48 AM
<grin/> Who said we don't like round brackets!!!
Scheme is fun and fits the magic formulea.
Easy to do easy things .....

Surprising the number of schemers that came out
of the closet!

regards DaveP

Pity you had to exclude the visually impaired Don.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-turingtest-20031105/

# re: More on Scheme

Rob Blackwell
Posted @ 10/5/2005 8:58 AM
Readers may also be interested in my project "L Sharp" which is a LISP dialect for the .NET platform. www.lsharp.org

# it's theoretically possible to actually conform without intending to and without a commitment to continuing to be that way on an ongoing basis...

franklinmint.fm
Posted @ 10/6/2005 6:07 PM
Don Box: "one of the things that makes Scheme great (in my mind at least) is the clarity of R5RS.'...

# re: More on Scheme

Edi Weitz
Posted @ 10/8/2005 5:45 AM
I fully agree with Olivier Drolet's posting - it'd be nice if upcoming releases of the CLR would add features that make it possible to implement (Common) Lisp /efficiently/ on top of it.

And while I'm at it let me misuse this forum for a shameless plug for my CL/.NET integration layer "RDNZL" - click on my name to check it out.

# re: More on Scheme

Mark Hurd
Posted @ 10/12/2005 5:10 PM
For completeness, I mention DotLisp here too.

http://dotlisp.sourceforge.net/

It is rather stable and quite useful, especially with my patches, but probably not the best Lisp dialect for someone new to Lisp.

# Reflections on Programming Languages

TheChaseMan's Frenetic SoapBox
Posted @ 10/20/2005 5:11 PM