scripting language vs. developer community size

Dan Kegel dank@alumni.caltech.edu
Mon, 15 Jan 2001 16:20:02 -0800


Eugene Tyurin wrote:
> 
> Many  years ago  (circa 1988)  I  remember briefly  trying out  some
> package called  Texas Instruments' Scheme.   Back then I  thought it
> looked like  a dialect of Lisp  with some additional system  and GUI
> toolkits.
> 
> Is that "The Scheme" we're talking about?

Scheme is indeed a dialect of Lisp.   I think the TI dialect of Scheme
is slightly different from what Gnucash uses, but can't say how.

- Dan