stecker@unc.cs.unc.edu (Melanie Stecker) (09/20/89)
I am interested in finding Scheme for the MacIntosh,
(to run on a MacPlus at best) for use in a first year
programming course.
If you know of such a Scheme, please email me details.
If you have experience with the Scheme, especially in
an educational setting, please include a brief evaluation
of the software.
Depending on the response I receive, I will post a
summary of replies.
Thank you.
Melanie Stecker ************* stecker@cs.unc.edu
'On the loose to climb a mountain, on the loose where I am free,
on the loose to live my life the way I think my life should be...'
-Unknownchewy@apple.com (Paul Snively) (09/21/89)
In article <9558@thorin.cs.unc.edu> stecker@unc.cs.unc.edu (Melanie Stecker) writes: > I am interested in finding Scheme for the MacIntosh, > (to run on a MacPlus at best) for use in a first year > programming course. > > If you know of such a Scheme, please email me details. > If you have experience with the Scheme, especially in > an educational setting, please include a brief evaluation > of the software. > > Depending on the response I receive, I will post a > summary of replies. > > Thank you. > Melanie Stecker ************* stecker@cs.unc.edu > 'On the loose to climb a mountain, on the loose where I am free, > on the loose to live my life the way I think my life should be...' > -Unknown If you're talking about commercially-available implementations, the only one that I'm familiar with is Lightship Software's (formerly Semantic Microsystems') MacScheme family of products. They have everything from Scheme Express, which is a very nice little bytecode-interpreted system with a very nice little price tag ($69.95) with a lot of cool things, such as a very simple, very elegant little object system and a really cool nondeterministic programming system that John Ulrich wrote (and wrote about in the September AI Expert, if my memory serves me correctly). A bit higher up is MacScheme, which supports native-code compilation for the Macintosh. Higher up still is MacScheme+Toolsmith, which gives you high-level Macintosh Toolbox/OS access and the ability to create standalone applications that can be distributed without royalties. Scheme Express sounds like it might be exactly what you need; it's inexpensive and fits just fine in a one-megabyte Macintosh Plus. If you want native code, you can go with MacScheme for $150; it will also work on a one-meg machine. MacScheme+Toolsmith is $395 and will run in one meg, but large programs may need more RAM. I suggest that you contact Lightship Software at: P.O. Box 1636 Beaverton, OR 97075 (503) 643-6909 Good luck! __________________________________________________________________________ Just because I work for Apple Computer, Inc. doesn't mean that they believe what I believe or vice-versa. __________________________________________________________________________