I recognize it as a "Lisp", right? What about Clojure, how does Scheme compare to Clojure? Clojure is/was sort of getting popular and creating a community ...
Yup! It's the oldest of the commonly used Lisp families, alongside Common Lisp and Clojure. I think the rough analogy goes like this:
Scheme : C
Common Lisp : C++
Clojure : Java
Of these, Scheme and Clojure are "functional" languages, or at least functional-first, and Common Lisp is truly multi-paradigm. It's very "kitchen sink", it has a massive amount of features, like C++.
Clojure is designed specifically with interop in mind. It can be used seamlessly as a hosted language targetting either JVM bytecode or JavaScript via the Closure Compiler. It also ships with a set of persistent data structures, and Clojure code is highly suited for concurrency and immutability. It's partially a response to the relatively stagnant development models of Scheme and Common Lisp, bringing the Lisp sensibility to a more pragmatic type of tool.
In a sentence, Clojure has a focus on actually building large, robust, reliable software, whereas Scheme is primarily an academic tool focused studying abstract concepts.
Emacs Lisp gets a shout-out as the fourth "category" still in wide use, but I don't believe it really has a life outside of Emacs itself.
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I recognize it as a "Lisp", right? What about Clojure, how does Scheme compare to Clojure? Clojure is/was sort of getting popular and creating a community ...
Yup! It's the oldest of the commonly used Lisp families, alongside Common Lisp and Clojure. I think the rough analogy goes like this:
Scheme : C
Common Lisp : C++
Clojure : Java
Of these, Scheme and Clojure are "functional" languages, or at least functional-first, and Common Lisp is truly multi-paradigm. It's very "kitchen sink", it has a massive amount of features, like C++.
Clojure is designed specifically with interop in mind. It can be used seamlessly as a hosted language targetting either JVM bytecode or JavaScript via the Closure Compiler. It also ships with a set of persistent data structures, and Clojure code is highly suited for concurrency and immutability. It's partially a response to the relatively stagnant development models of Scheme and Common Lisp, bringing the Lisp sensibility to a more pragmatic type of tool.
In a sentence, Clojure has a focus on actually building large, robust, reliable software, whereas Scheme is primarily an academic tool focused studying abstract concepts.
Emacs Lisp gets a shout-out as the fourth "category" still in wide use, but I don't believe it really has a life outside of Emacs itself.