On Feb 23, 2009, at 2:39 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > On Feb 23, Guillermo J. Rozas wrote: >> >> I asked you two questions. >> >> You didn't answer either. >> >> You merely re-state that my acknowledging the truth is damaging. >> >> I really, really, don't understand what you are saying. >> >> Either you disagree that what I've said is the truth, but have >> provided no evidence to the contrary (and unlike the benefit of case >> sensitivity, which is subjective, this is a matter of fact, so we >> should be able to resolve it), or are objecting to my mere statement >> of the truth, which I would find very odd. > > There's *some* truth to it in the sense that it's obvious that Scheme > is no Python; but the conclusion that we should all just jump out of > the ship and focus on teaching is (a) still as bogus for the > context of > this mailing list, (b) repeating that conclusion to anyone who's > willing to talk to you about Scheme is still doing active damage, (c) > even if Scheme is a "commercial disaster" in both academia and > programming, I don't see a point in holding on to one side just > because it looks a little better, (d) holding on to the view that > case-sensitivity is better because it's easier for (some) people to > learn is basically equivalent to switching over to case-insensitivity > because it is easier for most scheme students who know a different PL > anyway -- and both are just as bogus.
Please point me to the place where I said anything about jumping off the ship and just focus on teaching. And with respect to being bogus, I beg to differ, but no sense in beating a dead horse. _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
