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: 10259a,626a0a064b320310 X-Google-Attributes: gid10259a,public X-Google-Thread: 1164ba,626a0a064b320310 X-Google-Attributes: gid1164ba,public X-Google-Thread: 103d24,626a0a064b320310 X-Google-Attributes: gid103d24,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,ea8ea502d35ca2ce X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,626a0a064b320310 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-09 07:18:08 PST Path: newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!195.54.122.107!newsfeed1.bredband.com!bredband!news.algonet.se!newsfeed1.telenordia.se!algonet!newsfeed1.funet.fi!newsfeeds.funet.fi!newsfeed.kpnqwest.fi!news.kpnqwest.fi!not-for-mail Followup-To: iso-8859-1 Sender: ola@arenal.cyberell.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.basic,comp.lang.functional,comp.lang.scheme,comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: Beginner's Language? References: <9cukad$nn68@news-dxb> <9d6b6e$1bt$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <87snihxiwc.fsf@frown.here> <9dbi83$sji$1@nh.pace.co.uk> From: Ola Rinta-Koski Message-ID: Organization: Cyberell Oy User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 14:18:07 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.226.128.170 X-Complaints-To: helpdesk@kpnqwest.fi X-Trace: news.kpnqwest.fi 989417887 212.226.128.170 (Wed, 09 May 2001 17:18:07 EET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 17:18:07 EET DST Xref: newsfeed.google.com comp.lang.ada:7374 comp.lang.lisp:9869 comp.lang.smalltalk:9630 comp.lang.functional:5589 comp.lang.scheme:3731 comp.lang.perl:2734 Date: 2001-05-09T14:18:07+00:00 List-Id: "Marin David Condic" writes: > If you are familiar with Lisp, try this: Write a small program to read in a > couple of numbers from a keyboard, do some math with them and print the > result to the screen. (let ((foo 0)) (dotimes (i 5) (incf foo (read))) foo) > Now look at it. Could a neophite with literally *zero* > experience in programming computers read it and stand a chance of > understanding what it does or how it does it? Not being a neophyte, I'll just have to guess: yes and yes. -- Ola Rinta-Koski ola@cyberell.com Cyberell Oy +358 41 467 2502 Rauhankatu 8 C, FIN-00170 Helsinki, FINLAND www.cyberell.com