Schemy Lisp En DOS

Posted by AlexeyBrin 2 days ago

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Comment by dharmatech 16 hours ago

Super cool to see a new Scheme on DOS.

I've been messing around with a language that I summarize as:

ALOE = Scheme + Smalltalk + Types

Boids implementation:

https://github.com/dharmatech/2026-09-02-aloe-racket/blob/ma...

https://github.com/dharmatech/2026-09-02-aloe-racket

Comment by pmcgoron 16 hours ago

Aw, no call-with-current-continuation?

Comment by Jblx2 15 hours ago

How much does that really get used?

Comment by pmcgoron 13 hours ago

As an escape continuation, more than you'd expect. (Exception handlers, early return.) Full continuations are rarer, but I use them for doing error recovery.

Comment by bitwize 18 hours ago

Fantastic to see the DOS Lisp scene revived again. Back in the day there was PC-Scheme from Texas Instruments, which I believe was R3RS-compliant.

Comment by shakna 17 hours ago

Gambit-C has also been around since '88 and can compile to fairly portable C.

Probably been a decade since I tried compiling it for DOS, but I believe getting it up and running shouldn't be difficult.

Comment by alexshendi 41 minutes ago

Gambit-C 3.0 binaries are available at: https://gambitscheme.org/3.0/gc30-dj.zip (for DOS/DJGPP)

The other versions from https://gambitscheme.org/3.0/ are Windows or MacOS Classic binaries.