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Lisp Or Scheme

• Differences between Scheme and Common Lisp quite pro Lisp
• Major differences between Common Lisp and Scheme

Scheme is often used in computer science curricula and programming language research, due to its ability to represent many programming abstractions with its simple primitives. Common Lisp is often used for real world programming because of its large library of utility functions, a standard object-oriented programming facility (CLOS), and a sophisticated condition handling system. [1]

• What is the difference between Scheme and Common Lisp?
  • size: Scheme is much smaller
  • Scheme is more academic, Lisp is used in real-world apps.
  
  
• Scheme vs. Common Lisp, a nice anecdote by PhilipGreenspun
  • Scheme is more low-level, one has to write libraries oneself...!? (back in the 1980ies, i.e.)

Common Lisp is powerful but ugly. Scheme is small and clean, but the standard only defines the inner core of the language. If I had to deliver an application I'd probably use Common Lisp; if I were teaching a course I might use Scheme (but with Common Lisp macros).[2]

• Scheme-VS-Common-Lisp good comparison
  
• Wiki:LispSchemeDifferences --lisp vs. scheme