Scott Ribe  <sribe@miqs.com> wrote:
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| Rob Warnock wrote:
| > Try "DrScheme" <URL:http://www.cs.rice.edu/CS/PLT/packages/drscheme/>:
| > And it runs on just about everything in the world...
| 
| So you're using it successfully?
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Well, actually, I don't use DrScheme at all... (*blush*)

But I *do* use MzScheme [which DrScheme is implemented on top of]
on a variety of platforms and operating systems, *very* successfully!
I use it for all kinds of general "systems" hacking and scripting --
much the same things that other people might use Perl for. E.g., I
have one script that sucks stock quotes off the net and extracts and
prints *only* the price from the rest of the HTML mess, and another that
rummages through bunches of saved email, and another that snarfs up an
SGI "vcal" calendar database and extracts a given day's schedule and
prints it readably, and another that... well, never mind, you get the idea.

Oh, I've also used it to write tiny special-function Web servers.
(No big deal, just a couple of pages of code.)

It's quite robust.


-Rob

p.s. And *very* occasionally I've used MrEd [the GUI-cum-editor that
provides DrScheme with its graphics] for little stuff, again, successfully.
But I can't say I've stressed it or anything.

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