Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!bacchus.pa.dec.com!granite.pa.dec.com!mwm From: mwm@raven.pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: LISP & the Amiga.. Message-ID: Date: 4 Oct 90 20:49:09 GMT References: <90277.190943KELLYDK@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> Sender: news@wrl.dec.com (News) Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 27 In-Reply-To: KELLYDK@QUCDN.QueensU.CA's message of 4 Oct 90 23:09:43 GMT >The Scheme is (last time I looked at it) a pretty straight-forward >implementation of Scheme. If you've got the Abelson & Sussman's >"Structuer and Interpretation of Computer Programs" and are looking >for something to use with that, this is the correct choice. It's >slower than SIOD, but faster than the X* LISPs. I used XSCHEME for all my programming in a course based on Abelson & Sussman, and didn't run into any problems. I hadn't looked at XSCHEME before, and stated so in that posting. From having played with it this afternoon (on a DS3100), XSCHEME seems to be very nice. It didn't inherit the XLISP speed problems, and it's a much complete implementation than SIOD. Unfortunately, it has no hooks for getting to the Amiga-specific stuff, and the debugging environment seems primitive (at best). Note that this is _different_ from what I was calling Scheme, for which I've not seen source, but understand that it's 68K based assembler.