Lisping and Scheming

[Paul Dickson]

On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:23:21 -0700, Fritz Kolberg wrote:

> If you want to start with Lisp first, I would recommend Scheme,
> which is a modern (1975), cleaned-up dialect of Lisp.  An excellent
> introduction to Scheme is:
> 
>     "The Scheme Programming Language"
>                 R. Kent Dybvig
> 
> The full on-line text seems to be available at http://www.scheme.com .
> 
> Also, Wikipedia will point you to free Scheme compilers.
> 
> Good luck.

On Linux, just type: guile
Use (exit) to get out.

It might already be installed.  Among others, it's used by gnucash.

	-Paul