Hello, On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, Roshan Mathews wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Kapil Hari Paranjape<[email protected]> > wrote: > > If you just want to learn for the fun of it, then I suggest that you > > read the original paper of McCarthy as it explains the core of Lisp > > and Scheme and a whole lot else. At the same time to learn something > > practical start customising Emacs using lisp or by playing with > > e-toys in squeak (which is a scheme implementation). > > > Squeak is a Smalltalk implementation, I believe,
Thanks for the correction! All these languages tend to coalesce in my mind after a while. :-( I realise now that squeak's similarity to Lisp is only tangential. So a better example for study is the scripts (script-fu) in Gimp. These are written in a dialect of scheme. > and if anyone is going to be reading the "Recursive Functions..." > paper[1], then they might want to accompany it with Paul Grahams > commentary on it.[2] > [1] http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/recursive.ps > [2] http://www.paulgraham.com/rootsoflisp.html Thanks for the links! I didn't know about this commentary. Regards, Kapil. -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
