On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Daryl Tester wrote: > John Steele Scott wrote: > >> When my brain is up to it, I'm studying the Scheme programming language. > > I've got some leave coming up soon, and I'm hoping to make a significant > dent in SICP. I've had several abortive attempts at it, but 10 minutes > or so here or there doesn't soak into the brain well.
hehe.. I bought the book last year and I managed to get to page 43 :-( Seriously though, I'll get a round tuit one of these days (busy at the moment doing an MSc in IT degree). I bought the "Little Schemer" at the same time, which is most interesting, and "this page reserved for jelly stains" raised a smile. Jumping between Common Lisp and Scheme makes for interesting syntax errors. >> Although I haven't got very far with it yet, I think I can already >> relate to an observation I read on an MSDN blog that "Lisp is a Curse".[1] > > I've always thought of it as that language they used in Snow Crash to > rewrite people's brains. :-) hmm.. sounds like an interesting book. Lisp overwrote my brain a couple of years ago! >> Especially since we already have a Ruby troll on the list. :) > > He's harmless provided you don't get him wet or feed him after midnight. ... or get him started on Python's "list comprehensions" versus Ruby's "blocks"[1]. I'd like to try Ruby on Rails, so I'll get to play with Ruby then. [1] Ruby, Python, "Power" http://blog.ianbicking.org/ruby-python-power.html -- Chris Foote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Inetd Pty Ltd T/A HostExpress Web: http://www.hostexpress.com.au Blog: http://www.hostexpress.com.au/drupal/chris Phone: (08) 8410 4566 _______________________________________________ sapug mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/sapug
