From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:32:53 BST." References: <052884b8-7a4b-47fb-a96a-7bfc3b0ad196@b25g2000prb.googlegroups.com> <4A9E390C.90809@maht0x0r.net> From: Bakul Shah Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 09:35:45 -0700 Message-Id: <20090902163545.76DD15B3E@mail.bitblocks.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] scheme plan 9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5f2a8054-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:32:53 BST Eris Discordia wrote: > Although, you may be better off reading SICP "as intended," and use MIT > Scheme on either Windows or a *NIX. The book (and the freaking language) is > already hard/unusual enough for one to not want to get confused by > implementation quirks. (Kill the paren!) The second edition of SICP uses IEEE Scheme (basically R4RS Scheme) and pretty much every Scheme implementation supports R4RS -- s9fes from http://www.t3x.org/s9fes/ certainly supports it. It doesn't support rational or complex numbers but as I recall no example in SICP relies on those. Killing parens won't make you an adult :-)