Reading through the Lisp wikipedia entry brings back good memories of Scheme 10+ years ago, how the word lambda just gave shivers down everyone's spine. But i must admit, scheme (minimalist lisp) is a great platform to use to teach programming languages. Yeah, everyone was screaming and tearing hair, but years later, all my fellow students appreciated the insights that the course has provided to us.
While clicking deeper into the wikipedia entries of SICP (textbook for an introductory course in computer programming for students of computer science at MIT) the point of JavaSchools appeared. No offence to Java language/users, but I find all these JavaSchools (i.e. NUS) spend one whole semester to teach really basic concepts like variables, maths and functions, rarely touching on actual programing concepts. Hopefully, with the whole IT bandwagon moving on, the schools will re-focus back to actually teaching Computer Science. Good article here at http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchools.html . Just my two ranting cents on a Sunday morning, gonna dig my old text out for a good read thru memory lane =) Elvin Schemer - On 10/6/07, Maung Myat Thu @ Billy Aung Myint <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 16:38 +0800, Fabrice A. Marie wrote: > > Hello, > > > > > > Harish Pillay wrote: > > > It is refreshing to see Fortran being asked for. That was the 2nd > > > language i learned :-). > > > > > > > Interesting, I've coded in forth '84 (in the 90s) but never fortran (the > > mother of > > all languages). That's about one of the few that I never even played > > with at all. > > > > My favorite of all times is still Ruby which is in my mind still the > > best out there. > > (relax, please no flame war vs. python/etc..., I code in these too, I > > just prefer Ruby). > > And now that they're going to have a proper bytecode interpretor, it'll > > be even nicer :) > > C and Perl are still my most used language (but not my favorite like > Ruby). > > Since we are talking about supposedly out-of-date languages , I should > mention that LISP happens to be my fav :P Just for the record , how many > other languages can boasts a whole system made just for the efficient > use of the language ??? > > Of course , it could mean either the language is so good that they have > got to have hardware dedicated to it or the language is so bad it can't > be run properly on a normal hardware list the rest :P > > For those who are not lisp-aware , here is the wiki link for the > historic LISP Machines , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine . > Btw , AutoCAD and Emacs are both based on LISP entirely so its not just > for AI. > > regards > billy > > > > > Have a nice day, > > > > Fabrice. > > > > -- > > Fabrice A. Marie > > FMA Risk Management Solutions > > http://www.fma-rms.com/ > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Slugnet mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet > > > _______________________________________________ > Slugnet mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet >
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