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Does anyone know if Land of Lisp could be done (and by done I mean cradle to grave) in Racket?

I own the book but have put off starting it for the lack of knowledge regarding a cross-platform IDE to do all the exercises in -- as my time would be split between my work Windows [1] and my home OS X environments.

I do, however, have Racket installed on both; so...

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[1]: and I have already been shot down on Cygwin




One thing I sometimes enjoy doing with programming books is just re-writing all the example code in a different language. It's a lot lazier than actually doing the exercises, but still requires you to fully understand the concepts in the example code in order to translate them.

One example: I re-implemented much of the example Haskell code from a functional data structures book in Clojure, which improved my Haskell reading, my Clojure writing, and ensured that I actually understood the algorithms.

So I heartily endorse your idea of implementing the Land of Lisp examples in Racket Scheme.


Use Land of Lisp with clisp and LispIDE. I have already posted the link elsewhere in this thread.

LispIDE already ships with CLISP and full Common Lisp documentation. If you know how to use a text editor and click on a button labeled "Run", then you can use LispIDE.

You can stop by the IRC channel #lisp on Freenode, or you can shoot me an email if you need help, or tweet me a hola. Details in my profile.




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