Setting up a basic Scheme programming Environment

Recently I was exploring different lisp variants and ran across chicken scheme. it sounds like a nefarious plot by the poultry stock of the world but it’s actually the premiere scheme implementation. I wanted an environment that could run chicken scheme with low setup and so created a basic image that has chicken scheme as well some other compilation tools. Attached here is that environment, and some basic guides/reading to get started.

Build image, place the above into file called Dockerfile inside a folder named FOLDER:

docker build FOLDER --tag csc:0.1

Run the image for development and map files in the /root/work folder to outside of the running image for persistent storage:

docker run -it -v $HOME/work:/root/work csc:0.1

Use the chicken scheme repl:

Make sure if you get stuck in the REPL to just keep closing parentheses (i.e. ‘) ) )…’ until you can can escape whatever you did).

Basic compilation:

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