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Re: How to make GNU Guile more successful
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David Kastrup |
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Re: How to make GNU Guile more successful |
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Sun, 05 Mar 2017 10:40:16 +0100 |
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Alejandro Sanchez <address@hidden> writes:
> Scheme on the other hand is weird; weird in a good way, but still
> weird. For me the reason for picking up Scheme was working my way
> through SICP, but even before that I had heard of the Lisp
> family. Every time I tried to find out what the fuss was about Lisp
> all I could find was nebulous concepts like “it’s a programmable
> programming language” without explaining what that even meant and why
> I would ever want to use it.
>
> Of course once I got over the weird parentheses and I understood why
> they are actually a beneficial aspect I liked it.
Everything falls into place once you understand that Scheme does not
offer a programming language as user interface. Instead, you directly
write down the parse trees in Scheme's compact list representation.
That's not exactly readable but makes structure-preserving code
manipulation a breeze.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: How to make GNU Guile more successful, (continued)
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- Re: How to make GNU Guile more successful, Nala Ginrut, 2017/03/05
- Re: How to make GNU Guile more successful, Alejandro Sanchez, 2017/03/05
- Re: How to make GNU Guile more successful, Arne Babenhauserheide, 2017/03/06
- Re: How to make GNU Guile more successful, Matt Wette, 2017/03/05
- Re: How to make GNU Guile more successful, Erik Edrosa, 2017/03/06
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