Hello,

I am a new user of this list and also of the Scheme programming language.

Gambit-c was chosen because of its origin (U de Montreal).

The text book I am using is Simply Scheme from Brian Harvey and Matthew Wright of MIT, I have also access to other textbooks on the net. There are also some tutorial and notes at Concordia U., and at various other places on the Net which I am using to learn this Language.

Dr.Scheme has also software on the subject, however it is PLT Scheme.

My question is : What to use in my .emacs configuration file to use Emacs and where should I place the gambit.el file. I have tried the pllab.el and quack.el files configurations ( with some modifications for gambiit-c. has they are PLT specifics ) but for some reason it tells me that it cannot load my gambit.el file. May be I should stick to PLT Scheme or use Bigloo what do you think ?

I am using Debian Sarge for my operation system. I do not have nor do I intend to have Windows.

I can use Gambit-c in a terminal but it would be preferable to use Emacs, the configurations found on the Concordia pages for AI 472, either do not work or I am doing it wrong because of lack of experience and knowledge of Emacs. Learning both Emacs and Scheme has quite a learning curve.

I would appreciate the help of some knowledgeable people because frankly I am at lost.

Thanks for any amount of help and time you can bring me.

P.S I am willing to learn but do not have the university background which you have, my maths stop at college level and I am no Einstein. I am retired and have all the time in the world however. For you guys I probably am grandpa. Maybe I should have chosen this name instead of Tournesol, but I have used Tournesol for the last 13 years.

rcaronr@videotron.ca

Richard