[Gardeners] Scheme vs CommonLisp

[Daniel Weinreb]

nubis wrote:
>
> I know, I know, this sounds like ramblings from a person who can't make
> up his mind (which in part, they are)
>   
On the contrary, I think you have a very good grasp of the tradeoffs.
> Am I to wrong to look at Common lisp for a metaprogramable python
> replacement? (with less library bindings and googlish hype) 
>   
No, you're right.
> Is opening a REPL and running your program the recomended way to run a
> lisp program? was it ever, or was it just a misconception?
>   
Yes, while you're developing, definitely.  Once you deploy an 
application, there
are ways to start Lisp running your program, so the end user need not 
see the REPL.

-- Dan

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