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From: briscoe-duke@cs.yale.edu (Duke Briscoe)
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Subject: Re: Looking for Scheme for the NeXT
Message-ID: <1991Jan25.160153@cs.yale.edu>
Date: 25 Jan 91 21:01:53 GMT
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In article <48185@apple.Apple.COM>, mikel@Apple.COM (Mikel Evins) writes:
|> In article <1991Jan16.204221.23706@grape.ecs.clarkson.edu>
anthonjw@clutx.clarkson.edu (Jason W. Anthony) writes:
|> >Could someone point me to a version of Scheme for the NeXT?  Either
Public
|> >Domain or Commericial would be great.
|> >
|> >I understand there is a language called "T" that is available for
the NeXT
|> >and is similar to Scheme.  Is it much different?  I would be using
it for a
|> >class, so a lot of differences might be inconvient.
|> 
|> There are several ways to go. You could use T, but T is not quite
|> Scheme. There is a good chance that you would have to expend
|> significant effort in modifying your code for compatibility. T can
|> be had from wheaties.ai.mit.edu.

In fact, as someone else pointed out, T has a Scheme compatibility
environment which can be entered by executing (scheme-reset).  I have
ported some large Scheme programs to the T Scheme environment without
any difficulty at all.  T has a good compiler also, plus you can
access some of the extra features of T from the Scheme environment.  I
highly recommend T.  Although I haven't used it on the Next, I'm
pretty sure that there is a version for it available by anonymous ftp
from wheaties.ai.mit.edu, as said above.

Duke