From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 107f24,626a0a064b320310 X-Google-Attributes: gid107f24,public X-Google-Thread: f4fd2,626a0a064b320310 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4fd2,public X-Google-Thread: 103d24,626a0a064b320310 X-Google-Attributes: gid103d24,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,626a0a064b320310 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,ea8ea502d35ca2ce X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-07 03:58:51 PST Path: newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!skynet.be!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!news5-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!news11-gui.server.ntli.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3AF67F9D.72B90142@andrewcooke.free-online.co.uk> From: Andrew Cooke X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en-gb] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.functional,comp.lang.scheme Subject: Re: Beginner's Language? References: <9cukad$nn68@news-dxb> <9d5u1p$goiql$1@ID-63952.news.dfncis.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 11:57:33 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.107.111.32 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: news11-gui.server.ntli.net 989232825 213.107.111.32 (Mon, 07 May 2001 11:53:45 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 11:53:45 BST Organization: ntl Cablemodem News Service Xref: newsfeed.google.com comp.lang.ada:7252 comp.lang.lisp:9769 comp.lang.smalltalk:9513 comp.lang.functional:5553 comp.lang.scheme:3665 Date: 2001-05-07T11:57:33+01:00 List-Id: For an introductory course you might omit whatever the Scheme equivalent of setq is. And does Scheme have macros? - if so, they could go too. Andrew "Biep @ http://www.biep.org" wrote: > > "Larry Kilgallen" wrote in message > news:InrbsIku15ll@eisner.encompasserve.org... > > It seems to me that regardless of the language chosen, a restricted > > subset is _always_ appropriate. For any reasonable language there > > are bound to be parts that while helpful in certain real-world > > programming situations are not illustrative of the _concepts_ > > involved in programming. > > Just curious: what parts of Scheme would you leave out as not necessary to > illustrate important concepts in programming (or software engineering)? > > -- > Biep > Reply via http://www.biep.org