On Saturday 17 May 2008 13:46, Bob Williams wrote:
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Thanks Randall, I am indeed new to Scheme, and pretty much a newbie as far as any programmining goes, but I'm prepared to give it a go. Trouble is there's so much to learn - bash scripting, perl, C, HTML, and now scheme - at least I can say "Hello World" in all of them ;)
Then you're getting started in the best possible way: with Lisp and / or Scheme!
As I've got mzscheme installed now, I'm going to work through 'Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days' and see how far I get. When I get stuck, I'll follow your link to DrScheme. As I said, the purpose of this is to see if I can write some reports for GnuCash.
That's supposed to be a good source, though technically fixnums can be very large... I didn't try to describe DrScheme, since in all likelihood I don't know enough about it to do it justice, but I do know that it's expressly intended for learning Scheme. One of its very cool features is the ability to dynamically illustrate in the on-screen source display the relationship between definitions of and references to variables, functions and macros. DrScheme is a "facade" / front-end that works with various Scheme interpreters on the back end. I believe MzScheme is one of the Schemes supported by DrScheme, so you should be able to just install DrScheme and configure it for MzScheme. At least I think that would work. I chose PLT for my experiments, 'cause that was one that came along from the home:mvyskocil repository.
Bob
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