Re: [9fans] scheme plan 9

[Eris Discordia <eris.discordia@gmail.com>]

> Killing parens won't make you an adult :-)

Killing the paren(t)s is the hobbyist(eenager)'s radical response to
existential why's that arise as the world of exper(adul)ts opens up before
them and regularities in there are found to be essentially conventional
rather than rational or natural.

I mean, I never got past SICP Chapter 1 because that first chapter got me
asking, "why this much hassle?"

P.S. I'm leaving. You may now remove your
arts-and-letters-cootie-protection suits and go back to normal tech-savvy
attire ;-)

--On Wednesday, September 02, 2009 09:35 -0700 Bakul Shah
<bakul+plan9@bitblocks.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:32:53 BST Eris Discordia
> <eris.discordia@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Although, you may be better off reading SICP "as intended," and use MIT
>> Scheme on either Windows or a *NIX. The book (and the freaking language)
>> is  already hard/unusual enough for one to not want to get confused by
>> implementation quirks. (Kill the paren!)
>
> The second edition of SICP uses IEEE Scheme (basically R4RS
> Scheme) and pretty much every Scheme implementation supports
> R4RS -- s9fes from http://www.t3x.org/s9fes/ certainly
> supports it.  It doesn't support rational or complex numbers
> but as I recall no example in SICP relies on those.
>
> Killing parens won't make you an adult :-)
>