hstof@vaxh.nki.nl (09/10/90)
I do not have any practical experience with functional programming languages, but I gradually have become more interested in them. From some pretty general books on programming languages and constructs as well as from bits and pieces in this news group I have the impression that SCHEME is the language that I would like to experiment with. However, though SCHEME is regularly mentioned I have not come across an implementation yet. Can anyone help me out : - Does anyone know whether SCHEME is available for personal computers running MS-DOS ? - If not, is SCHEME available for VAX-VMS ? Thanks in advance, Huub Stoffers
flo@doitcr.doit.sub.org (Florian Reichl) (09/15/90)
The state of the art Scheme on MS-DOS based computers is Texas Instruments PC Scheme According to AI Expert Magazine "The package is very professional; the documentation is excellent." ... "The debugger and inspector are impressive". Though I am not a professional I like using it, too. The only alternative on MS-DOS based computers I know is X-Scheme by David Betz It's very much like X-Lisp. But I don't know, if it is further supportet by David Betz or if it died sometime ago. If anybody knows about any other Scheme implementation on 80x86 PCs, please let me (or us) know! With best greetings from Munich, Bavaria -- Florian