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I love racket. It's basically scheme with a bunch of extra goodness (libraries, language features) added on top.

You may have heard of it before it was renamed (it used to be known as PLT Scheme).

I've just started working through Land of Lisp as well. I find myself wishing I were writing Racket instead of Common Lisp, but it's entirely possible that's just because I'm more familiar with Racket/scheme.

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I am also more familiar with Racket and Scheme, but was considering working through Land of Lisp. Do the code and problems in the book lend themselves to translation into other languages? That is, do you think one could learn both CL and Racket fairly well by working through the book first in CL, then translating to Racket?

Also check out "The Little Schemer", it's great.

I bought Land of Lisp when it first came out, but I just barely started reading through it a few nights ago (school keeps getting in the way). I believe the stated intention of the book was to teach any lisp (but the book uses common lisp). The first guessing-numbers game would be trivial to translate to Scheme. I'm assuming there will eventually be games with graphics, and I'm not sure if those will be as easy to translate or not due to library issues.

I wish I could offer a more definitive answer, but I'm just not far enough into the book yet to say.

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