Scheme

[Dirk Gerrits]

Erik Max Francis wrote:
> Dirk Gerrits wrote:
> 
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> They are, for some value of "dialect."  Certainly Scheme is a Lisp-like
> language.  Common Lisp folks get pretty angry when you refer to Scheme
> as "Lisp," though.
> 

I just saw a thread on comp.lang.lisp and comp.lang.scheme that referred 
to Common Lisp as Lisp-2 and to Scheme as Lisp-1. What gives?

Dirk Gerrits