Here’s the Deal
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When comparing MIT/GNU vs Ypsilon Scheme, the Slant community recommends MIT/GNU for most people. In the question“What are the best Lisp dialects?” MIT/GNU is ranked 7th while Ypsilon Scheme is ranked 12th.
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Pros
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Pro Concurrent Garbage Collection
Pro Elegant Idioms
Pro Copyfree Licensed
Pro Powerful Hygienic Macro System
Cons
Con Not made to run as standalone
Cannot be compiled to a standalone executable, only to byte code that can be run from the interpreter; and cannot be conveniently interpreted by the interpreter from the command line.
Con Not very well-documented
The documentation is very sparse.
Con Poor Windows support
Con Ill-designed interpreter's interface
The interpreter does not support the use of the left and right arrows to move the cursor in the code and the use of the up and down arrows to navigate through the history.
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