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So, someone wrote an integration of the lovely IronScheme (open source) in office and wants $99/yr?

Wowza.

Edit:

Check out iron scheme here: https://github.com/IronScheme/IronScheme

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If they are willing to provide good support, then the $99 is well worth it.

Where is the $99 price? I can't find out how to buy it.

On their website go to Customers->Marketplace and it looks like you can buy it there.

Thanks that looks really good. I don't use .Net platform, so I am not a potential user, but for Lispers using the .Net platform, this would be nice.

I use Common Lisp a lot in my work and my own research programming, and language interop is always a nuisance. With IronScheme, it looks like interop with all .Net languages is easy.

It looks like this Scheme might eventually have good interop with Common Lisp:

https://github.com/lisp-mirror/airship-scheme

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13868549

As for using it:

> This section is currently incomplete because the programming language is not functional at the moment.

Way down FTA:

  Scheme is Only the Beginning! ... and it will also offer Clojure as an 
  alternative

It did take me awhile to understand this is a paid offering on top of office 365 though.

Both are R6RS, by the way.

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