Re: Scheme learning

> On 28 May 2018, at 23:48, Torsten Hämmerle wrote: > > As far as I know, Church originally used a "hat" accent ^. > From there, it's not far to a Greek Λ and its lower-case form λ. In [1], p. 7, there is a remark that he originally stated that, but later said the choice was more accidental,

Re: Scheme learning

Hans Åberg-2 wrote > The lambda comes from the book by Alonzo Church, "The Calculi of > Lambda-conversion", which is a logic theory about function applications, > but it is unknown why he choose the letter lambda, though a prefix > notation makes it easier to carry out formal proofs. It then

Re: Scheme learning

> On 28 May 2018, at 21:47, Robert Schmaus wrote: > > I agree with you - when I looked at the Scheme functions (mainly as Snippets) > I saw that it's not very complicated. It was just when I tried to customise > something that I really had to do a lot of guesswork how to get this to work. >

Re: Scheme learning

Hi Andrew, thanks first of all for your mail and the many resources (which I will need some time to look through, I think) ... and sorry for the late reply, I had two computer-free days, which sometimes really is refreshing. I agree with you - when I looked at the Scheme functions (mainly as

Re: Scheme learning

Robert Schmaus writes: > Hi Andrew, > > thanks first of all for your mail and the many resources (which I will > need some time to look through, I think) ... and sorry for the late > reply, I had two computer-free days, which sometimes really is > refreshing. > > I agree with you - when I looked

Re: Scheme learning

> On 27 May 2018, at 14:13, Helge Kruse wrote: > > Am 27.05.2018 um 13:38 schrieb Andrew Bernard: >> I would recommend obtaining a copy of SICP, Structure and Interpretation of >> Computer Programs, by Ableson and Sussman, the MIT text and classic of >> computer science.

Re: Scheme learning

Am 27.05.2018 um 13:38 schrieb Andrew Bernard: > I would recommend obtaining a copy of SICP, Structure and Interpretation of > Computer Programs, by Ableson and Sussman, the MIT text and classic of > computer science. This is the famous Wizard book, from the cover picture. > My hardback copy sits

Scheme learning

Hi Robert, I've started a new thread on the topic under discussion of the difficulty of learning Scheme. This comes up frequently. Putting my programmer hat on, it's a common experience for programmers brought up in C family languages to be baffled and daunted by Scheme and Lisp family languages.