Robert A. Uhl

Scheme vs. Common Lisp

Many years ago I started to get into Scheme, an academic programming language which was supposed to become the official language of the GNU Project; it was this which drew me to it. After all, if the GNU Project would be using it everywhere, then it’d serve me well to learn it ASAP. Scheme’s an interesting member of the Lisp family; code is represented as a list which may itself be manipulated. Read more →

Scheme vs. Common Lisp

Many years ago I started to get into Scheme, an academic programming language which was supposed to become the official language of the GNU Project; it was this which drew me to it. After all, if the GNU Project would be using it everywhere, then it’d serve me well to learn it ASAP. Scheme’s an interesting member of the Lisp family; code is represented as a list which may itself be manipulated. Read more →