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Explaining the many paradigms of PLT Scheme to a 16 year old
- mahmud 17y agoSome great hackers took turns tutoring the kid; what a lucky SOB! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=640994 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=640994 -- So the last question is: -- perhaps you really want to learn to program in PLT Scheme so that you can see what elegant lazy functional programmers do, strict lazy programmers, OO programmers, logic programmers, and imperative programmers without ever leaving the language. PLT is entering Mozart/Oz territory here, with clean syntax as a major plus. Good read.
- daeken 17y agoI don't know that PLT is clean, but it's consistent and straightforward. I still believe it has a long way to go to really compete with languages like Python in terms of presentation, but they've done great work and it's very nice to work with these days.