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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada & Scripting
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 17:19:36 -0500
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Bobby D. Bryant wrote in message ...
>I don't want you to use anything you don't want, but this looks like a
>good place to insert a basic observation on that:  When I taught the
>freshman-level Foundations of Computer Science course here I spent
*one*
>lecture on Scheme syntax, and started in on recursion and induction in
the
>second lecture.


Gee, those must be terribly slow freshmen. :-)
Considering that the syntax of LISP is essentially:
   expr ::= identifier | number | ( {expr} )
Getting it do to something is a bit more interesting; but that's
semantics, not syntax.

They didn't call it LISP (Lots of Irritating Silly Parenthesis) for
nothing. :-) :-)

            Randy.