Scheme questions

[enCode]

Are there any IT professionals out there that use scheme, and if there are, what do you use it for?

[highwizard]

Are there any IT professionals out there that use scheme, and if there are, what do you use it for?

Yes!

I use a different scheme everytime I attempt to conquer the world.

[bascule]

Scheme's a nice language, but in all practicality you're much better off going with Allegro Common Lisp

[converge]

why? .....

[bascule]

Support, for multiple platforms, protocols, and substantial application libraries on par with languages like C# and Java.

[enCode]

why? .....

There was a massive debate in my programming class over whether or not it was a usefull language or not. It was funny, picture two fat red-faced java programmers(one student one teacher) yelling arguements back and forth.

[bascule]

There was a massive debate in my programming class over whether or not it was a usefull language or not.

Scheme was a great attempt at addressing the shortcomings of Lisp, specifically interfacing with other languages, but unfortunately has garnered little support. Allegro CL allows you to produce distributable compiled executables of your Lisp code, is portable across a ridiculous number of platforms, is an excellent Common Lisp implementation in general with a rich application library, and provides standard interfaces to many system facilities.

It was funny, picture two fat red-faced java programmers(one student one teacher) yelling arguements back and forth.

Haha, that's an awesome image in my mind. I never really thought of Java types possessing the requisite brainpower to gauge the strengths and weaknesses of functional languages, but maybe I'm just biased

[highwizard]

Haha, that's an awesome image in my mind. I never really thought of Java types possessing the requisite brainpower to gauge the strengths and weaknesses of functional languages, but maybe I'm just biased

Bascule begins another one of his famous "pick a fight posts". Programmer Pissing match take 1.

Atleast it's not about politics!

[enCode]

I never really thought of Java types possessing the requisite brainpower to gauge the strengths and weaknesses of functional languages, but maybe I'm just biased

oh yea... well... your a stupid head!
P.S. In all honesty, Im really open to learning about, and using different programming languages. Theres always more then one solution to a problem, so thanks, bascule, for turning me towards Allegro CL and Lisp (I confess,I'd never heard of either).