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Common Lisp's main advantage over Scheme is that it has been used commercially for years, and has thus accumulated a large number of libraries. Scheme was crea
by dmaclay 18y ago
Common Lisp's main advantage over Scheme is that it has been used commercially for years, and has thus accumulated a large number of libraries. Scheme was created as a more consistent and concise Lisp, and is better suited to experimentation.
- igorhvr 18y agoI read things to this effect in the internet, but then you have more than one Scheme system that runs (or is able to run) on top of the JVM - effectively making this problem disappear. So, I guess I am looking for other differences, things that are essential to the languages - not just differences in libraries...
- dmaclay 18y agoDon't use any of the JVM schemes (for one thing, none of them even satisfy RSR5 in compiled mode), stick to Chicken or PLT.