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I will be forever grateful, that my University taught Scheme/Lisp with this book (and others) as introduction to programming. While I have never used Lisp or S
by linuxhansl 16y ago
I will be forever grateful, that my University taught Scheme/Lisp with this book (and others) as introduction to programming.
While I have never used Lisp or Scheme in my professional life, that set of undergrad courses more or less defined my mindset when it comes to algorithms and their expression and has lasted to the present day (some 20 years later).
- dasil003 16y agoAgreed. I went to the University of Minnesota which modeled its curriculum after the MIT CS program. I was saddened to hear they were ditching Scheme for their intro class. I don't see why they felt the need to update to a more "modern" language. It's impossible for any language to ever more directly express the basic concepts of functions and recursion than lisp. Why muddy the waters with syntax?