Is there a way to create an equivalent of Python's virtual environments (virtualenv)? With virtualenvs, one can install Python packages inside the virtual environment (a separate directory) without...

Is there a lint for Common Lisp or Chicken Scheme? Possibly something akin to C's splint, Haskell's HLint, Perl's B::Lint, etc.?

I have been using chicken scheme lately and i find it really good, someone suggested that chez scheme is the fastest scheme implementation. So i wanted to try it, but i am not sure how to create co...

Is there anyone who is able to configure Sublime Text 2 and SublimeRepl to work with chicken scheme? I've got chicken repl in Sublime, but it displays error messages from the chicken scheme only (...

I have created executable of following code in Racket (choosing Racket and not GRacket): #lang racket (print "Hello World!") It creates a tgz of 3.6 mb with an executable of 6.2 mb. This seems ...

In Common Lisp, if I want two functions to share state, I would perform a let over lambda as follows: (let ((state 1)) (defun inc-state () (incf state)) (defun print-state () (format t "~a~%" ...

I'm a little hazy on the differences between (use) and (import) in Chicken. Similarly, how do (load), (require) and (require-extension) differ? These things don't seem to be mentioned much on the ...

Racket has the nice read-bytes-async! function, which I believe exists in every other programming language in the world. It reads what it can from an input stream, without blocking, into a buffer, ...

I'm looking for something similar to Javascript's arguments array: function parent(){ child.apply(this.arguments); } I'm aware of the dot notation for variable argument lengths and also scheme'...

How can I reliably get the script name in Chicken Scheme? It seems that -ss eats up the script name, so it's not visible unless I use dot slash to run my scripts. scriptedmain.scm: #!/usr/bin/en...