Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> By the way, I went and bought a Scheme book today at my favorite
> technical bookstore (Op-Amp Books in Los Angeles). I asked the
> clerk where the Scheme books were and he sniggered... there was an
> entire wall of C++ books, and just four books about Scheme (three,
> if you don't count duplicates). Now I'm reading about car, cdr,
> caar, cddr, cadr, cdar, and the like.
Two things:
(1) For scheme to be more successful, it will help a great deal if
the SRFI's become widely available. Scheme is a very nice,
small, well-defined language, but it lacks a lot of the
convenience functions you might want. For example SRFI-1 is
very helpful in this respect (for more info see the SRFI section
at www.schemers.org).
(2) If you haven't seen it, I give my highest recommendation to the
the book people usually refer to as SICP. It's the "Structure
and Interpretation of Computer Programs" by Abelson and Sussman.
Aside from being an excellent way to learn scheme, it will
probably broaden the way you think about computer programming.
FWIW
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Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930
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