On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 07:50:26AM -0700, Sanjeev Sharma wrote:
> "Turing is useless" ...
>
> While I worked as a programmer I used to complain quite bitterly about
> university comp sci departments that had NIH (not invented here) syndrome
> and a captive audience.
>
> I learned Turing as
I didn't realize (though I should have) that the comment could be taken
that way.
I realize you were not writing anything about the Turing language, but the
title of the essay triggered some memories for me of what my classmates and
later my professional colleagues used to talk about. And
For everyone else, the essay is NOT about Turing/the language or Turing/the man
but Turing, the concept.
And because it is true that we have monopoly power over students here, not a
single required course forces students to use Racket. In our freshman course we
use the teaching languages,
"Turing is useless" ...
While I worked as a programmer I used to complain quite bitterly about
university comp sci departments that had NIH (not invented here) syndrome
and a captive audience.
I learned Turing as my 2nd programming language. I'm sure the only reason
it could have been
> On Aug 24, 2018, at 5:50 AM, Jérôme Martin
> wrote:
>
> I just read the article by Matt that was posted on Hacker News
> (http://felleisen.org/matthias/OnHtDP/index.html) and I wanted to take the
> time to thank you all in the PLT/Racket team.
>
> Thank you for trying (and achieving!) to
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