AM>> and many other universities teach Scheme in their introduction
AM>> to CS classes. Scheme has garbage collection, no pointer
AM>> arithmetics, unboundedly
Well, I personally never understood how anybody can use, let alone like, a
language that has '(' and ')' as it's only syntax and I personally think
it's an assembler for people with twisted minds - so I cannot
wholehertedly support or even reasonably evaluate the usefulness of
teaching Scheme to the beginners.
AM>> (is that a word?) big integers/fractions. Heck, even arrays in
No big deal. My second (the first was Basic, obviously) programming
language was one that could easily calculate 100! without resorting to any
special algorithms or libraries. :) Actually, with existance of GNU GMP,
any language can do this now ;)
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