DLV101@psuvm.psu.edu (Dwaine VanBibber) (09/19/90)
Does anyone know of a public version of Scheme exists for MS-DOS, compiler and/or interpreter? Thanks. --Dwaine
ergo@netcom.UUCP (Isaac Rabinovitch) (09/19/90)
In <90261.190248DLV101@psuvm.psu.edu> DLV101@psuvm.psu.edu (Dwaine VanBibber) writes: >Does anyone know of a public version of Scheme exists for MS-DOS, compiler >and/or interpreter? Thanks. >--Dwaine Not public, but pretty cheap: MIT Press is selling a scheme interpreter for $36. Judging from the documentation, it's the same interpreter that TI has been selling for $100 for several -- ergo@netcom.uucp Isaac Rabinovitch {apple,amdahl,claris}!netcom!ergo Silicon Valley, CA Collins's Law: If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything. Corollaries ("Rabinovitch's Rules of Sane Dialogue"): 1. Everybody who matters is stupid now and then. 2. If I'm being stupid, that's my problem. 3. If my being stupid makes you stupid, that's your problem. 4. If you think you're never stupid, boy are you stupid!
unhd (Brent W. Benson) (09/22/90)
In article <13394@netcom.UUCP> ergo@netcom.uucp writes: >In <90261.190248DLV101@psuvm.psu.edu> (Dwaine VanBibber) writes: >>Does anyone know of a public version of Scheme exists for MS-DOS, compiler >>and/or interpreter? Thanks. >>--Dwaine >Not public, but pretty cheap: MIT Press is selling a scheme >interpreter for $36. Judging from the documentation, it's the same >interpreter that TI has been selling for $100 for several Before spending any money, XScheme is a fairly useful (IMHO) implementation of Scheme that is available FOR FREE by anonymous ftp on terminator.cc.umich.edu. It seems to compile without hitch on DOS machines. -- _ _ | | __ __ __ _| |_ Brent Benson | .\| _\/._\| \|_ _| Dept. of Computer Science (bwb@unh.edu) |__/|_| \__/|_|_| |_| University of New Hampshire (b_benson@unhh)
dak@sq.sq.com (David A Keldsen) (09/22/90)
DLV101@psuvm.psu.edu (Dwaine VanBibber) writes: >Does anyone know of a public version of Scheme exists for MS-DOS, compiler >and/or interpreter? Thanks. >--Dwaine It's about that time, I think. Does anyone have a nice FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions (and answers)) list that they can post? I'll construct one, if there are no other volunteers. (And in for a brief answer to your question, there is an inexpensive Scheme implementation from TI, "PC-Scheme," now available from Scientific Press with a decent text, for less than $40. There are also SIOD, XScheme, Elk (a new version has just been released), Fools Lisp, and a couple of others that are in development.) Dak -- David A. 'Dak' Keldsen: dak@sq.com or dak%sq.com@neat.cs.toronto.edu "A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought." -- Lord Peter Wimsey (Dorothy L. Sayers, "Gaudy Night")
manis@cs.ubc.ca (Vincent Manis) (09/23/90)
In article <13394@netcom.UUCP> ergo@netcom.uucp writes: >Not public, but pretty cheap: MIT Press is selling a scheme >interpreter for $36. Judging from the documentation, it's the same >interpreter that TI has been selling for $100 for several Actually, it's the Student Edition of TI PC-Scheme, omitting expanded/extended memory support and foreign functions, but including everything else. It's, of course, a fantastic deal. We've ordered it for our first year students (the campus Bookstore screwed the order up, so the students have to make do with NeXTs :-) I am given to understand that MIT also markets the full TI product, running at the same price (US$100) that TI charges (charged? I don't know whether TI still market it). As for PD/free versions, you might look at XScheme (available lots of places) and something Ozan Yagit has written, called PSI, which he promised us all he'd make available as a beta version RSN. -- \ Vincent Manis <manis@cs.ubc.ca> "There is no law that vulgarity and \ Department of Computer Science literary excellence cannot coexist." /\ University of British Columbia -- A. Trevor Hodge / \ Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1W5 (604) 228-2394