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: 103376,ea8ea502d35ca2ce X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,626a0a064b320310 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: 103d24,626a0a064b320310 X-Google-Attributes: gid103d24,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-07 03:39:54 PST Path: newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!fw.baan.NL!not-for-mail From: "Biep @ http://www.biep.org" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.functional,comp.lang.scheme Subject: Re: Beginner's Language? Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 12:41:49 +0200 Message-ID: <9d5u1p$goiql$1@ID-63952.news.dfncis.de> References: <9cukad$nn68@news-dxb> NNTP-Posting-Host: fw.baan.nl (194.149.80.1) X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 989231993 17582933 194.149.80.1 (16 [63952]) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Xref: newsfeed.google.com comp.lang.ada:7250 comp.lang.lisp:9765 comp.lang.smalltalk:9512 comp.lang.functional:5552 comp.lang.scheme:3664 Date: 2001-05-07T12:41:49+02:00 List-Id: "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