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Understood vs Learnt

Started by phildawes · 9 months ago

I’ve been reading ‘The Little Schemer‘ (a new edition of ‘The Little LISPer’) and ‘The Seasoned Schemer’ recently, recommended to me by JP (who (of course!) has a signed copy of the original). This i ... Continue reading »

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  • What implementation are you doing the examples in?
  • To be honest I haven't needed to try stuff much - the answers are pretty easy to follow and it's usually the underlying pattern or concept that's important rather than seeing running code.
    (and I understand that the original little LISPer book was written using an un-implemented dialect of lisp - can anybody confirm/deny?)

    That said, I've been playing with gambit, bigloo and sisc (scheme in java) a bit recently.
    Gambit is especially interesting to me because of the parallel computing possibilities of termite. (I never really got on very well with erlang's syntax)
  • btw, the termite homepage is here

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