I don't think the "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" is a particularly good place to learn Scheme. And I don't agree that it's as good a book as many people think it is.
About a year ago, I decided to learn Scheme in order to understand more about Lilypond. SICP was widely recommended and I shelled out almost $100US for it and a lab manual. After quite a lot of work on it--I've completed most of the exercises in the the first 150 or so pages--I remain unimpressed. So far it is difficult without being correspondingly enlightening. If you want to test your wits against its main audience--i.e., computer science majors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology--then go for it. Otherwise, look elsewhere. I've gotten more practical help from the online tutorial "Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days" at http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dorai/t-y-scheme/t-y-scheme.html The Guile tutorials are okay too. I also don't care for "The Little Schemer." It's kind of silly in it's faux-dialog approach, and it's hard to review what you've already been through. And of what practical value is something called "applicative order Y-combinator"? _______________________________________________ Lilypond-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
