macOS Lisp Scheme

[AlanShutko]

Has anyone else looked at newLisp? It's a general-purpose scripting language based on Lisp. I haven't played with it all that much, but it looks like a neat little language.

I started looking at how it differs from other Lisps, but I don't think I'll be looking further. It looks like it's trying some different things, but I'm not sure why they're better than Common Lisp. I like lexical scope, I like lambda the way it was, and I'm not sure why I need another construct to give me closures. Some stuff, like changing cons to create a list instead of a dotted pair, seems gratuitous.

I'll keep using sbcl as a general purpose scripting language.

 

[ChrisA]

... we will be using Lisp Scheme

That's good. Seems maybe the instructor is teaching "programming" and not the syntax of some popular language. Many people fail to see the difference.

I one had an instructor who was very smart to make us write in a langue he invented for wich there was no compiler. We wrote our code in pencil on paper and there was no way to run it on a computer.

He said that to many students simply experimented and changed stuff until it worked and did not learn much. The class was an compile and inter peter design class and sure enough what we were writing was a simple compiler for out language. and we had to write it in that language. (bootstrapping did require using existing byte code inter peter