Scheme

[Dirk Gerrits]

laotseu wrote:
> Dirk Gerrits wrote:
> 
>> Sandy Norton wrote:
>>
>> Once I got past my parenthesis-phobia I found Scheme 
>> (http://www.schemers.org/) to be quite elegant.
>>
>> It's a small Lisp dialect
> 
> 
> Our local (french) Lisp guru is that, despite historic common background 
> and some superficial syntactic similitudes, Scheme and Common Lisp have 
> really evolved following two splitting path...

Well I'm pretty new to the Lisp world, but I thought Scheme and Common 
Lisp where just two (very different) dialects of Lisp. Perhaps I am 
mistaken.

Dirk Gerrits