Subject: Re: Common Lisp vs Scheme
From: rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Date: 11 Jul 2002 16:16:03 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
Message-ID: <agkb03$7rlui$1@fido.engr.sgi.com>
Bijan Parsia  <bparsia@email.unc.edu> wrote:
+---------------
| While I like Graham's book (though less over time), the fact that it *is*
| written somewhat from a Schemely point of view might conceal more that it
| reveals. Norvig's *Paradigms of AI Programming* contains rather more
| unbridled enthusiasm for CL as such (compare the discussions of LOOP).
+---------------

Oh, for someone wishing to compare the two, I'd have to
say PAIP is probably the more useful to read. After all,
Chapter 22 "Scheme: An Uncommon Lisp" starts off with a
comparison of Scheme & CL, and goes on to develop a Scheme
interpreter in CL. And Chapter 23 "Compiling Lisp" develops
(in CL, of course) a proper tail-recursive compiler for
the Scheme of Ch. 22.


-Rob

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