Dave Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > When you say that MIT's CS program is grounded in practical > applications, are you referring specifically to the fact that a > student can complete the MIT CS program without coding anything except > Lisp? Because that's what came to my mind. Grounded in practical > applications? I don't think so. Valuable? Absolutely.
I meant this: http://web.mit.edu/facts/mission.html An excerpt: "Rogers stressed the pragmatic and practicable. He believed that professional competence is best fostered by coupling teaching and research and by focusing attention on real-world problems. Toward this end, he pioneered the development of the teaching laboratory. Today MIT is a world-class educational institution. Teaching and research--with relevance to the practical world as a guiding principle--continue to be its primary purpose." What, in particular, do you find impractical about Lisp? Are Lisp programs not REAL programs? When a Lisp program finds the solution to a problem, is that solution invalidated by the language? Anyway, I doubt that you can get through the MIT CS program today without learning more than Scheme. The intro to programming course will be switching to Python soon, anyway. Is that practical enough for you? --Levi /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
