News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Successful Lisp: How to Understand and Use Common Lisp by lanolin on Monday January 10, 2011 @08:42AM (#2088409)
This discussion seems to focus on the plain spartan Scheme standard, when -- comparing to CL -- it should focus on an implementation that contains standard-ish libraries as well.

Although CL might be the whole well-stocked golf bag (1-wood, 2-wood, irons, wedges, putters, ball-cleaner, radio...), wouldn't, say, Chicken be a smaller but still fairly well-rounded set?

Re:Successful Lisp: How to Understand and Use Common Lisp by mahmud on Monday January 10, 2011 @09:27AM (#2088527)
Chicken is the size of Common Lisp, but without the benefit of standard specification or a community.

What exactly are arguing about then?