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- Read SICP - Understand how all programs can be written as lists of lists of lists... and so on - Pick up the language that you work in. Identify what constr
by kapv89 10y ago
- Read SICP
- Understand how all programs can be written as lists of lists of lists... and so on
- Pick up the language that you work in. Identify what construct of that language allows you to approximate scheme/lisp lists. For me this is objects in java & php, and functions in javascript
- Code your program as a list of lists of lists... in the language of your choice.
- Congrats, you got OOP
- eru 10y agoDoesn't SICP stress closures more than lists? (And this list-heavy approach only really works in a dynamically typed language.)
- kapv89 10y agoI have used it just fine in Java. "dependency injection" looks a lot like lists-of-lists... And SICP talks about a lot more than any particular constructs. Its the sort of book you can come back to, and take what you need to go further.
- eru 10y agoI've recently actually done the latter, and gone back to SICP. Alas, it shows its age badly: it's too untyped for my tastes these days. Yes, you can emulate dynamic typing in statically typed languages---but why would you want to if the static type system is expressive enough? (I can see how in Java dynamic typing might be the smaller hassle.)