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Anybody ever heard of little ol Scheme 48?

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  • 16-10-2000 10:34am
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    Lord Khan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,004 ✭✭✭


    Found out we're doing Scheme 48 mad.gif instead of HTML ( ********* ***** ******* ******* ***** is all I can say to that )

    has anybody here even used it?
    and what the hell do you do with it?

    damn functional programming


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    Baz_
    Registered Users Posts: 2,660 ✭✭✭Baz_


    Is it any use, and more importantly is it well supported???

    Is it purely for web programming or any programming???


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    ecksor
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    Scheme is a generally useful programming langauge afaik, and certainly not just for web development. I'd certainly rather that to a html course ...

    Anyway, more info here -> http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/projects/scheme/index.html


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    Lord Khan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,004 ✭✭✭Lord Khan


    well it's not exactly a hard langauge as such
    only 17 different dang what's that word **** syntax thingie hehe :P

    but I'd rather be doing HTML as such :-)

    takes for the Nfo link anyway :-) seems none of the other 250 in the course have heard about it so i think I shall do some swotting on it :-)
    keep the labs as short as possible anyway


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    Derek Bell
    Closed Accounts Posts: 44 ✭Derek Bell


    Originally posted by Lord Khan:
    has anybody here even used it?
    and what the hell do you do with it?

    Scheme is a Lisp dialect,
    these books cover it:
    Abelson & Sussmann, _Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs_ (2nd Ed.), McGraw-Hill

    D.P. Friedman and M. Felleisen, _The Little Schemer_ and _The Seasoned Schemer_, both 4th edition, MIT Press

    Scheme is available for several platforms, including the Palm Pilot (a version called LispMe).


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