Lisp/Scheme interpreter without Emacs?

Question

I\'ve been wanting to teach myself Lisp for a while. However, all the interpreters of which I\'ve heard involve some flavor of emacs. Are there any command line interpreters, s

Answer 1

Most scheme interpreters that I am familiar with can be run from the command line. (Much of the list below is extracted from the comparative table at Alexey Radul's Scheme Implementation Choices page. There is a more extensive list at schemewiki but that page does not immediately provide command-line invocation syntax.)

Here's how you run a number of implementations at the command line:

• Chez Scheme: scheme, petite

• MIT Scheme: mit-scheme

• Scheme 48: scheme48

• RScheme: rs

• Racket: racket (But I recommend trying the DrRacket IDE, especially for beginners.)

• Guile: guile

• Bigloo: bigloo

• Chicken: csi

• Gambit: gsi

• Gauche: gosh

• IronScheme: IronScheme.Console

• Kawa: kawa, java kawa.repl

• Larceny: larceny

• SCM: scm