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2008-10-16 18:01:01 UTC
Indeed. When you read a book such as SICP, there's almost no material
about learning scheme. These languages are very small, R5RS is 50
pages,
When i read SICP, it was R4RS.about learning scheme. These languages are very small, R5RS is 50
pages,
Common Lisp is really just 17 special operators (and associated
notions). All the rest is libraries.
LOL. Your mom is 17 special operators and associated notions.notions). All the rest is libraries.
But indeed that may be a shock for learners. Learning lisp is easy,
you don't spend a semester on it, just a couple of weeks. Then the
rest of the semester is spent on learning more interesting things such
as algorithms, paradigms, AI, etc. This means _real_ _work_!
Learning Mathematica is even easier. Just couple days instead ofyou don't spend a semester on it, just a couple of weeks. Then the
rest of the semester is spent on learning more interesting things such
as algorithms, paradigms, AI, etc. This means _real_ _work_!
lisp's weeks. Then, you spend the rest of your life learning
mathematics.
When you learn C++, you can spend the year learning by heart little
insignificant syntactic details,
and when you're done, you still have
a low level language where you need to implement (or integrate
libraries) even the most basic mechanisms such as bignums.
and when you are done leaning lisp's syntactical warts, you still needinsignificant syntactic details,
and when you're done, you still have
a low level language where you need to implement (or integrate
libraries) even the most basic mechanisms such as bignums.
to implement (or integrate libraries), even the most basic pattern
matching facilities, infinite precision arithmetic, mathematical
functions.
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Pascal's writings above is a typical Evangelical bullshit. A warm and
fuzzy ball of words, lacking any substance and reality. Similar
sentiment you'll get from perl fanatics about perl, and java fanatics
about java.
its value is that its plausible and pleasing to hear for the group, so
it gets spread as gospels.
All you have to do to test its validity is to publish it outside of
your community. (such as cross-posting lang X gospels to lang X, Y, Z,
groups) Even though lots of response will be senseless knee-jerking
drivels, but in the discussion, you'll start to see how vain was your
beliefs.
Xah
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