Ask YC: Scheme vs Common Lisp - power/expressivity comparison.

Re:Ask YC: Scheme vs Common Lisp - power/expressivity compar... by dmaclay on Thursday November 27, 2008 @09:10AM (#378660)

Common Lisp's main advantage over Scheme is that it has been used commercially for years, and has thus accumulated a large number of libraries. Scheme was created as a more consistent and concise Lisp, and is better suited to experimentation.

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Re:Ask YC: Scheme vs Common Lisp - power/expressivity compar... by igorhvr on Thursday November 27, 2008 @01:04PM (#378807)

I read things to this effect in the internet, but then you have more than one Scheme system that runs (or is able to run) on top of the JVM - effectively making this problem disappear.

So, I guess I am looking for other differences, things that are essential to the languages - not just differences in libraries...

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Re:Ask YC: Scheme vs Common Lisp - power/expressivity compar... by dmaclay on Saturday November 29, 2008 @08:45PM (#380536)

Don't use any of the JVM schemes (for one thing, none of them even satisfy RSR5 in compiled mode), stick to Chicken or PLT.

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