Tracy Reed wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 08:56:14PM -0700, James G. Sack (jim) spake thusly: >> <heh> I gather at least you're not objecting to throwing functional >> programming at the rank beginner? Well, Sussman and Abelson did it, but >> they're MIT gods .. can it be done by mere mortals? > > Not only were Sussman and Abelson MIT gods but the students aren't > your average code monkeys either.
<heh> Maybe they're not all above everyone else. I only met one MIT CS grad, and he was a good programmer but had one particularly annoying desire to write one-big-thing, instead of modularizing. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
