From: cjames@envisionet.net
Subject: Re: What schools use Scheme ?
Date: 1995/04/18
Date: 1995-04-18T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <NEWTNews.29124.798272241.cjames@cec-services-01> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.798240823@gnat
In article <dewar.798240823@gnat>, <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> writes:
> From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada
> Subject: Re: What schools use Eiffel ?
> Date: 18 Apr 1995 17:37:38 -0400
> Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
>
:
: esoterica removed
:
> I think most Ada programmers probably *know* about recursion, but I suspect
> many are not comfortable. Programming in a language where recursion is
> *the* control structure can be enlightening.
>
> That being said, I think that using Scheme in a first programming language
> course is a lunatic idea. The textbook is indeed an excellent book, but
> that doesn't change the basic point that Scheme is absurd in this context.
> SML would indeed be a better choice, although I would not support that
> either.
>
> In the academic world, there are too many people who believe an equation
> like:
>
> programming languages = formal semantics + type theory
>
Schizophrenic reasoning.
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