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On 30 Oct 1998, Russ McManus wrote: > Jay Glascoe <jglascoe@jay.giss.nasa.gov> writes: > > > <don asbestos suit> > > Well that shouldn't be necessary. > ... > > Although it's weakly typed, it's not a VHLL like Perl/Python. > > I detect an incorrect application of the contrapositive. whatever, "although Scheme is Scheme, it's not a VHLL" > > In my experience, functional style Scheme code is concise and, unless > > you're careful, slow. > > This is an attribute of a particular implementation, not an intrinsic > property of the language. no, purely functional code is intrinsically slow. > Once you start writing more scheme/lisp, I would expect that your > scheme programs will start to be 3-5 times smaller than the same C > program. Yes I mean 3-5 times. Perl/Python are an order of magnitude shorter than comparable C code. Yes, I mean 10 times. > scheme; it will expand your programming horizons. yes it has, I also learned a lot from C, C++, Objective C, ML, Objective Caml, Haskell, CL, Smalltalk, Perl, Python, shell, and even little ol' awk > Grab a copy of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, and > go. SICP was fun. You may also want to take a look at Essentials_of_Programming_Languages, Dybvig's The_Scheme_Programming_Language, Bird's Introduction_to_Functional_Programming > -russ > > -- > If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footsteps of giants. > Jay jglascoe@jay.giss.nasa.gov