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From: "David Eby" <deby@cs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Different Free Schemes
Message-ID: <1995Mar28.101910.28450@news.cs.indiana.edu>
Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University
References: <3l71un$21bd@acs6.acs.ucalgary.ca>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 10:19:02 -0500
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In article <3l71un$21bd@acs6.acs.ucalgary.ca>,
Matthew Alan Chaput <machaput@acs.ucalgary.ca> wrote:
>
>Hi all! I have a question/concern about Scheme implementations in general 
>and Amiga Schemes in particular.
>
>I'm looking for a Scheme for the Amiga. It would be nice if it windowed 
>and drew, but I know there are no Amiga Schemes that do this. So far I've 
>tried a few, but they all have problems.
>
>Can someone tell me if these problems are specific to the Amiga versions
>(I have 68030/68881)? Some of them seem pretty major. By the way, I am a
>real newbie; I haven't even figured out LET-REC!
>
>The versions and the problems:
>
>Gambit: - Does not have RANDOM
>        - Does not have BEGIN
>        - No documentation
>
>OakLISP: - No documentation
>
>XScheme: - No documentation of OO features
>         - (expt 2 8) => 255.99999999 (!)
>
>SIOD: - I forget why I gave up on this one. Not designed as a stand along 
>        language.
>
>---
>SCM, MIT, etc. are not available for Amiga (SCM supposedly compiles, but I
>don't have the space for a GCC system. If anyone knows where to find a
>binary, PLEASE MAIL!).
>
>If anyone could give me suggestions, short of downloading NetBSD (not
>enough room!), I would appreciate it! For example, pointers to docs,
>explanations of the weird missing commands in Gambit (there may be more,
>I'm new at this) which is supposedly R4.. compliant, whatever. 
>>Thanks!
>
>********************************************
>Matt Chaput
>machaput@acs.ucalgary.ca
>
>The Canadian Government MUST begin budgeting money to purchase Tragically
>Hip,Blue Rodeo and Watchmen CDs for every man, woman and child in America. 
>It's humanitarian aid! They don't know what they're missing! My God, the
>madness MUST END! Thankyou. 
>

I'd suggest you contact the authors directly.  From the Scheme FAQ:
Gambit:
  gambit@trex.iro.umontreal.ca
OakLISP:
  Barak Pearlmutter (bap@cse.ogi.edu)
  Kevin Lang (kevin@research.nj.nec.com)
XScheme:
  David Michael Betz (dbetz@apple.com)
SIOD:
  George Carrette (gjc@paradigm.com) or (gjc@world.std.com)
SCM:
  Aubrey Jaffer (jaffer@zurich.ai.mit.edu)

David Eby



