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Scheme or Common Lisp?

Asked 2010-08-19T21:42:55.037
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I am an intermediate programmer, and have decided to learn either common lisp or scheme. My question is simple, which one would you choose? I don't care much for the difficulty of the syntax, just the power, flexibility, and other aspects of the language itself. Also, which implementation of either common lisp or scheme should I choose? Thanks!

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Scheme is of equal or greater power of Common Lisp, but it doesn't have as much support or bindings. I'd go with Common Lisp. As for the implementation? I've been using sbcl in slime/swank for awhile now, and it's pretty nice and fast. Slime is really nice.

answered 2010-08-28T17:25:53.320

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