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Seriously, a stack trace that is 100% meaningful, where I don't have to play detective to figure out why the values I am looking at are what they are... that would be nice to have all the time. Well, I was really excited about (pure) functional stuff when I first got interested in Haskell, after co...

Love the parentheses-lizard approach! Maybe even another pair of parentheses could make it clearer... what are the tiny symbols scattered around the lizard? Looks like "y o o c" or something.

I haven't done much scheme coding (only examples from the SICP, but they were running only in MIT Scheme), but tried STALIN on couple of example and was impressed by the code generation (granted, not the standard way to use lisp/scheme, having compile times of hours/days, rather than ms, but still ...

Also, I don't think http://common-lisp.net/project/cello is on the Cliki page, and it seems worth a peek. It (and Cells) sounds very interesting, but all of the links to the actual code/screenshots/etc (including the CVS site) are broken :( Actually, I found the working CVS link to Cells on the cel...

I like Gambit-C Scheme in its approach; being portable to all sorts of platforms as long as a good C compiler is available. But as a newbie to both CL and Scheme, I'll probably spend more time using the prepackaged PLT/DrScheme environment with its pretty GUI stuff, for now anyway.

Martin wrote:http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/

Wow! That looks really impressive. I'll have to check that out; seems like the kind of attention-grabbing, powerful thing that might attract someone to programming, too. Quality links

For me, the main reason for using an existing runtime (e.g., the JVM or .NET) is to avoid reimplementing a runtime ;-) It's nice to know that your garbage collector is tuned and well-tested, for example. Steve Yegge gave an interesting talk about Rhino, Javascript and the JVM - apart from the effic...

If it's Turing complete, then why not? It must be possible in both directions, but I suspect building a Brainfuck compiler in Lisp would be just a little bit easier

Does the forum come with a set of Pitman, Kenny, The Two Pascals, Joswig, many others and Dr Frog Hopper? I can't wait for the first thread about pathnames that morphs into how Lisp is rubbish because it "doesn't even have pattern-matching over algebraic data-types, can you believe it?" o...