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Re:If you want to learn Lisp, be ready to meet the scowling ... by palish on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @07:54PM (#29352)
Cool. Does Scheme work on Windows?
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Re:If you want to learn Lisp, be ready to meet the scowling ... by Tron on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @07:55PM (#29353)
Yep. Check out DrScheme: http://www.plt-scheme.org/software/drscheme/
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Re:If you want to learn Lisp, be ready to meet the scowling ... by palish on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @07:56PM (#29354)
Wow; what an amazing breath of fresh air.
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Re:If you want to learn Lisp, be ready to meet the scowling ... by Alex3917 on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @08:07PM (#29358)
Yes. Also, SICP uses Scheme for its examples, so that's the other reason you want to understand Scheme code.

(If you look up SICP on Amazon you'll see PG's review on page one)

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Re:If you want to learn Lisp, be ready to meet the scowling ... by euccastro on Wednesday June 20, 2007 @06:53AM (#29485)
Peter Norvig's review was on the front page too. I found that one even more helpful.
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