While studying the SICP video lectures I have to twist my mind some to completely understand the lessons. I implement the programs shown there in both Python and Scheme, and I find the Python implementations simpler to write (but it's not a fair comparison because I know very little Scheme still).
Now some things are changing: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1840 >The MIT is going to change its curriculum structure that was famous for >teaching Scheme in introductory courses. One force behind the reform is no one >else than Harold Abelson, famous for his marvelous Scheme opus SICP.< >The first four weeks of C1 will be a lot like the first four weeks of 6.001, >Abelson said. The difference is that programming will be done in Python and >not Scheme.< Someone is translating the SIPC programs in Python too: http://www.codepoetics.com/wiki/index.php?title=Topics:SICP_in_other_languages#Python With slides and code from lectures: http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.01/ http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.01/fall06/calendar.html I like Scheme a bit too, but I consider this is a small victory for Python :-) Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
