[Edu-sig] More re (+ Scheme Python)

I continue to have the impression (I think it's more than a mere prejudice, as I've been doing some studying) that Scheme is more academic and less interested in venturing into the rough and tumble world of writing to sockets, encryption, XML, unicode, working with various kinds of GUI widget, than is Python.

I find the newest version of DrScheme (from Rice U) goes further into some of these topics. There's a GUI object toolkit (widgets), some XML support, plus a tutorial on how to write CGI programs. Given what appears to be a highly OO flavor to the widgets (similar to Python's), I'm going to have to look again at how to implement objects as instances of classes (organized in a hierarchy) in this flavor of Scheme. Kirby