Re: Scheme Question

[Marcus Macauley]

Eduardo Vieira <address@hidden> wrote:

> I don't know why this e-mail didn't make it to the Lilypond list, but,  
> anyhow, have you ever checked the program FOMUS  
> (http://common-lisp.net/project/fomus/doc/)? If you think of  
> algorithimic composition and working with Lisp and Scheme, that might be  
> interesting.
> Personally, Scheme and Common Lisp are still Greek to me, but I just  
> came across that link and thought would be useful, as the program offers  
> Lilypond and MusicXML output.

It looks very interesting, Eduardo. Thanks for the link.

While we're on the topic of Scheme/Lisp, does anyone have any recommended  
tutorials, especially for non-/novice programmers?

I've found these two resources to be helpful so far:

Revised(5) Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme
http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/ftpdir/scheme-reports/r5rs-html/r5rs_toc.html

Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days
by Dorai Sitaram, 1998-9
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/languages/scheme/tutorial-dsitaram/t-y-scheme.html

...but I'm new to all of this, and would appreciate any suggestions.

The Lilypond documentation (Appendix B: Scheme tutorial) links to
http://www.schemers.org/
, but that site doesn't reveal much online documentation.

(Maybe one of the printed textbooks --
http://www.schemers.org/Documents/#all-texts
-- would be useful? Any recommendations?)

Would documentation on Guile or Lisp be relevant? I'm not clear on what  
the differences are.

Thanks in advance,
Marcus