Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site yetti.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!yetti!mike From: mike@yetti.UUCP (Mike Clarkson ) Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Scheme on a PC? Message-ID: <527@yetti.UUCP> Date: Mon, 17-Aug-87 19:34:13 EDT Article-I.D.: yetti.527 Posted: Mon Aug 17 19:34:13 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 18-Aug-87 05:30:02 EDT References: <316@m10ux.UUCP> Reply-To: mike@yetti.UUCP (Mike Clarkson ) Organization: York University Computer Science Lines: 35 In article <316@m10ux.UUCP> rgr@m10ux.UUCP (Duke Robillard) writes: >Does anyone here have any experience with TI's Scheme >for the IBM-PC world? It's so cheap, that I'm sorely tempted, >but I fear that my 8086-based machine just won't be able to >do anything with it.... > TI's Scheme is an excellent product, and well worth it's price. The manual alone is worth the $99, and serves as valuable documentation for the MIT Vax/Sun/VMS version as well, as they have been very careful to distinguish between "generic" Scheme and TI's implementation. (The differences are minor and usually very reasonable and worthwhile.) Besides, Scheme is an excellent language in it's own right, and I feel that most programmers will benefit from looking at it. Some people have characterized Scheme as "what Common Lisp *should* have been". Which brings me to my question: I heard a rumour that a new, as yet unfinished European effort at a Lisp standard (EuroLisp?), is based significantly on Scheme. Does anyone have any info on EuroLisp - does it exist, what stage is it at, what does it look like? I'd be interested in hearing anything concrete about it. -- Mike Clarkson, ...!allegra \ BITNET: mike@YUYETTI or CRESS, York University, ...!decvax \ SYMALG@YUSOL 4700 Keele Street, ...!ihnp4 > !utzoo!yetti!mike North York, Ontario, ...!linus / CANADA M3J 1P3. ...!watmath / Phone: +1 (416) 736-2100 x 7767 "...the most inevitable business communications system on the planet." - ROLM magazine advertisement which planet?