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What was the premiere Scheme programming environment for Scheme circa 1989?

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@fogus though i was not there… probably chez, but it was proprietary. otherwise mit scheme

@wingo @fogus I think the answer, then as now, depends very strongly on the definition of ‘premiere’

@wingo @fogus Other candidates that are no longer with us: T (still just about going until 1991, according to JAR’s site), TI PC-Scheme (and the fork by the University of Geneva), MacScheme

@fogus MIT Scheme probably or TI PC Scheme

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My own experience in this period has a huge soft spot for MacScheme as documented in the book:

‘Programming in MacScheme’ and its companion ‘MacScheme Manual and Software’.

I don’t have the titles to hand to refer to at this moment, but I realise I might have conflated MacScheme referenced by @samth and the ‘Scheme for Macs’ as above?

Anyway, this seemed to be a well-regarded system.

books.google.co.uk/books?id=vR

Google BooksProgramming in MacSchemeProgramming in MacSchemeis an introduction to programming using the Scheme Language on an Apple Macintosh. It assumes no previous programming experience on the part of the reader, but covers all the basics of the language and many advanced topics as well. Like all good computer language texts, it gets the learner on the machine early and provides an abundance of examples and exercises.Michael Eisenberg is a Ph.D candidate in Computer Science at MIT. William Clinger is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oregon. Ann Hartheimer is a programmer and writer.Harold Abelson is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT.

And I have fond memories of writing a college project on backpropagation in the early ‘90s (the archetypal ‘handwritten numerals’) using it. And discovering after much head-scratching, that yes, I’d implemented it correctly, but no, hadn’t realized it took several hours to train.

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@fogus Depending on what you mean by environment, I think Scheme 84, MacScheme, MIT Scheme were probably the most significant ones.

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