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Sorry that was unclear. What I meant was: a while back, I was exploring Scheme (motivated by SICP) and then ran out of free time. Now, I’ve got some free time a
by schemescape 3y ago
Sorry that was unclear. What I meant was: a while back, I was exploring Scheme (motivated by SICP) and then ran out of free time. Now, I’ve got some free time again and want to try Common Lisp because of the REPL-driven workflow.
It wasn’t meant to be a comment on Scheme vs. CL.
- em-bee 3y agoi found the repl driven workflow intriguing but i could never get into it. i am not an emacs user and the vim integration wasn't as good as slime promises to be and i couldn't really get comfortable running lisp from within vim. not ssure, i probably didn't try to hard. smalltalk on the other hand made this a lot easier. not repl driven but having an actual UI to manage code and handling errors it provides the same ability to fix issues at runtime without restarting but with a nicer interface to manage the code.
- Zambyte 3y agoI see, thanks for clarifying!
- gorjusborg 3y agoThanks for clarifying. I recently went into the lispy rabbit hole for a while. Scheme is so beautiful. CL seems more willing to compromise for pragmatism.
- db48x 3y agoYes, CL is extremely pragmatic. And Scheme was invented specifically as a pedagogical tool, so everything is much cleaner. At least until you install scm-utils, and find that it added an entire computer algebra system and physics simulation system and so on. :)