Scheme in C++ - Hackdot

Re:Scheme in C++ by eliben on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @09:49AM (#3265669)

There are a lot of Scheme implementations floating around the web, in any language you can imagine. I have one of my own (shameless plug: http://code.google.com/p/bobscheme/) in Python & C++, and there are many others, at least some of which are better than mine in some respects.

The implementation linked here is IMHO badly written - that's not good code to learn from. So if your goal is to learn how to implement Scheme, I suggest to look elsewhere. For example, one good resource is Scheme from Scratch: http://michaux.ca/articles/scheme-from-scratch-introduction

Note that this is nothing personal, I just frankly think this is not good code to learn from.

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Re:Scheme in C++ by bitcracker on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @12:45PM (#3266474)

Racket Scheme (http://racket-lang.org) is a good Scheme implementation and provides plugins for other languages. C, for example:

http://planet.racket-lang.org/package-source/jaymccarthy/c.p...

Plugin Database: http://planet.racket-lang.org

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Re:Scheme in C++ by eliben on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @07:30AM (#3269811)

Racket is good, but I think the discussion here is more about educational implementations - small, simple to grasp. There are of course also a number of industrial-strength implementations of the Scheme language in C and C++, but those are hardly the best place to start this learning!

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