Top "Scheme" questions

Scheme is a functional programming language in the Lisp family, closely modeled on lambda calculus with eager (applicative order) evaluation.

What are the differences between Clojure, Scheme/Racket and Common Lisp?

I know they are dialects of the same family of language called lisp, but what exactly are the differences? Could …

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Scheme IDE for Windows

What is a good Scheme IDE for Windows? OK, I'll admit it; I'm not at RMS's level, and don't want …

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Lisp in the real world

I have experimented with Lisp (actually Scheme) and found it to be a very beautiful language that I am interested …

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Please explain some of Paul Graham's points on Lisp

I need some help understanding some of the points from Paul Graham’s What Made Lisp Different. A new concept …

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Get the points of intersection from 2 rectangles

Let say that we have two rectangles, defined with their bottom-left and top-right corners. For example: rect1 (x1, y1)(x2, …

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removing last element of a list(scheme)

So I have to remove the last element of a list in scheme. For example, let's say I have a …

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How do I learn Scheme?

Hey, I'm a relative newbie to programming. I've picked up some very basic Java (File I/O, GUIs, inheritance) and …

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What is ' (apostrophe) in Lisp / Scheme?

I am on day 1 hour 1 of teaching myself Scheme. Needless to say, I don't understand anything. So I'm reading The …

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How do I get an item from a list at a given index in racket language?

I'm trying to get an item from a list at a given index for a loop statement. (define decision-tree-learning (lambda (…

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What are the actual differences between Scheme and Common Lisp? (Or any other two dialects of Lisp)

Note: I am not asking which to learn, which is better, or anything like that. I picked up the free …

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