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I'd just love to see this work well with a proper SCIP plugin on Windows. MIT/GNU Scheme sort of works on Windows, but you can't integrate it with EMACS. Dr. Racket comes closer, but the libraries have been moved from (or to, I don't remember off hand) Planet, and trying to get them installed is painful and prone to error. It becomes really difficult to study the lectures without a good environment and Dr. Racket is the most promising because it supports graphical output. I just wish it worked properly.


I got a fair way through SICP using DrScheme (now DrRacket) a few years ago without any special compatibility modes, and found the set-up to be pretty great.

Now there's better compatibility thanks to

#lang planet neil/sicp

http://www.neilvandyke.org/racket-sicp/


That's what I've had such a hard time setting up. The newer Dr. Racket uses a different library system and last time I tried to get things working (on 6.1 I think) it has all sorts of problems downloading. I had to use older versions and it was never installed correctly.


Apropos Emacs: Have you seen racket-mode for Emacs? (Available through Melpa)




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