Re: What schools use Scheme ?

Re: What schools use Scheme ?

[cjames]

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.