Subject: Re: The differenct between Common Lisp and Scheme?
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:25:36 -0500
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
Message-ID: <8N6dnUzVsPfdmPrXnZ2dnUVZ_hOdnZ2d@speakeasy.net>
dolphin  <jdxyw2004@gmail.com> wrote:
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| I have searched using google, but still be confused.
| Can I say that Scheme is a subset of CL?
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No. Neither one is a subset of the other, though they
both are members of "the Lisp family of languages".
Some reading that might help [or might just confuse]:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp#Comparison_with_other_Lisps
    http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LispSchemeDifferences
    http://community.schemewiki.org/?scheme-vs-common-lisp
    http://www.accesscom.com/~darius/writings/scheme-for-lispers.html
    http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~novak/schemevscl.html
    http://www.nhplace.com/kent/Papers/Technical-Issues.html
    http://www.nhplace.com/kent/PS/Lambda.html


-Rob

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