On Monday, May 11, 2015 at 9:29:31 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, 11 May 2015 06:43 am, Chris Seberino wrote: > > > I'm thinking that for the VERY beginning, Scheme is the fastest language > > to get beginners up and running writing code due to the extremely minimal > > simple syntax. > > Do you believe that learning syntax is the hardest part for beginners to get > past?
You seem to be asking a rhetorical question. I regard it as a basic koan in CS http://blog.languager.org/2015/04/poverty-universality-structure-0.html#fundamentalKoan -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
