Re:Dialects of Lisp
by Locke1689 on Friday February 22, 2013 @12:52PM
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I'm not familiar with a lot of other dialects, but the information on Racket is terrible. I wouldn't trust any of the other responses.
Racket is not an R6RS scheme, it's... Racket. R6RS is an available language/library in Racket, but it's not what you usually use[1].
Racket has also always been a language laboratory, not just a scheme. I'd also wager that it's the most popular scheme used today, maybe even the most popular lisp.
[1] The Racket primary language is specified with #lang Racket, R6RS is specified with #lang r6rs. R5RS is specified with #lang r5rs.
Racket is not an R6RS scheme, it's... Racket. R6RS is an available language/library in Racket, but it's not what you usually use[1].
Racket has also always been a language laboratory, not just a scheme. I'd also wager that it's the most popular scheme used today, maybe even the most popular lisp.
[1] The Racket primary language is specified with #lang Racket, R6RS is specified with #lang r6rs. R5RS is specified with #lang r5rs.