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You could boot your machine into a LISP or Scheme repl, which in my opinion (as a ruby programmer by trade) are much nicer for kids to learn programming with th
by tinco 14y ago
You could boot your machine into a LISP or Scheme repl, which in my opinion (as a ruby programmer by trade) are much nicer for kids to learn programming with than Ruby or Python because of the dynamic and interactive nature of lisp.
- zokier 14y agoIf you are going to take the LISP route, wouldn't booting into emacs and slime make sense? emacs as a login shell.... I wonder if anyone actually does that :)
- evincarofautumn 14y agoI have experimented with it. The worst problem I had was that the terminal emulators were too slow for my taste. But overall, Emacs works surprisingly well for it.
- eschulte 14y agoIf taking this route, maybe emulating one of the old lisp machines would be a good way to go (since they really were lisp all the way down). It looks like someone has already started this project. http://www.unlambda.com/l-machine/l-machine.html http://www.unlambda.com/l-machine/l-machine.html