Scheme

Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Fri May 16 17:00:11 EDT 2003


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.

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