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From: ellard@bbn.com (Dan Ellard)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.scheme
Subject: Differences between common lisp and scheme
Keywords: scheme, common lisp
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Date: 11 Jun 91 14:58:05 GMT
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I am relatively new to Common Lisp and Scheme, so this may seem
like a dumb question...

How "similar" are Common Lisp and Scheme?  Is Scheme a subset of
Common Lisp, or are there features present in Scheme that are
missing from CL?  In other words, if I have a Scheme program,
and I want to port it to CL, is this easy, hard, or impractical?

Please respond via email.  I will provide a summary of responses
(if any) to anyone interested.

Thanks,
	Dan