Re: Hello!

Hi Glen

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"Glen Walker" <glen.walker@mail.com> wrote:

> Just a quick greeting to say that I am a new RISC OS user,
> fairly experienced programmer and old-hat technical writer.

Welcome. Seeing that you have had experience with Lisp you might
like to have a look at RiscLua ( http://www.wra1th.plus.com/lua/ ).
It does not resemble Lisp at first glance, but like Scheme it has
functions as first class citizens and lexical scoping; hence
easy to use in a functional style. Also easy to use in an OOP
style. Lua has the advantage of bags of online documentation
and an active community ( http://lua-users.org/wiki/ ). The
RISC OS dialect of it has extensions to access the OS; they resemble
those of BBC Basic: sys, dim, ?, !, $ etc. So you can use it in most
circumstances that Basic can be used. It is a bit faster. You can
link programs with the interpreter to create standalone binaries.

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Gavin Wraith (gavin@wra1th.plus.com)
Home page: http://www.wra1th.plus.com/