[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > No surprise to anyone who's ever tried to use MIT Scheme. > > Be careful, such assertions are often flamebait.
Well, yeah, it's a warning to everyone to not bother with the MIT implementation of Scheme which is completely worthless. > > I am using DrPython Haven't heard of that one, although I've got DrScheme. > (I think they were using it at MIT too lately), That's no surprise since the MIT implementation of Scheme is worthless. > and > it is very very good IDE, it produces executables on the fly, it has a > visual debugger with some nice graphical things, it manages graphics, > and it has something that I have never seen in Python: it manages a > hierarchy of simpler Scheme languages, useful to learn for students. > Probably something similar may be useful to learn Python too (such > stripped down Python versions can forbid things like def foo(x=[]): > ...). I find that hierarchy extremely annoying. I don't see the need for it. I never use OOP in Python yet there's no need for me to have a stripped down version, I just don't use it. > I am appreciating Scheme a bit because of such very good editor > that makes things possible for newbies of the language too. But those are implementation details, which you can't avoid. A bad implementation spoils a language even if the language itself is fabulous. > > Bye, > bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
