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I didn't even look at the examples, but I knew the author had to be a lisper. People get so used to patterns of thought, they forget what they had to do to get
by gorjusborg 2y ago
I didn't even look at the examples, but I knew the author had to be a lisper.
People get so used to patterns of thought, they forget what they had to do to get there.
- gus_massa 2y agoIt looks like scheme. Anyway, that unindented code hurts my eyes. (It's not as bad as an unmatched parenthesis, but it's close.)
- andy99 2y agoYes that's my take too. Once you know something well, it's easy to formulate it elegantly to say it's nothing more than the monoid in the category of endofunctors or whatever, but how something is conceptualized by those who get it has no bearing on how it's learned. A lot of the time, it seems like lots of worked examples without any theory is the way to go until something clicks. All that said, I can't understand why someone would find recursion complicated which probably means I'm unsuitable to teach it.