Lars Marius Garshol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said about teaching LISP first: >Many universities do, using Scheme. It seems to work very well. Perhaps >in part because they get to use what many call the best book on >progrmaming ever written. ><URL: http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/sicp.html > Lars mentions: (The) Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Abelson, Sussman Dan says: Well, I knew before I checked the URL that was the book I would find. I'm pretty smart... I can solve problems, scientific, commercial, linguistic, etc. Understand protein science, telecom, etc; but yet, this book loses me everytime. I get through about 1/2 of each chapter, and then have a panic attack I'm just not smart enough to understand it! The level of abstraction in it is just so high compared to other computer workbooks. I wonder too whether the computer I was using at the time made it a little harder; (bad lisp implementation). I have a prolog book here which doesn't scare me hald as much. Well, its sort of a prolog-ish copy of (1) above! Dan K
