[Sussex] Code-writing methods

[Geoff Teale]

On Friday 17 November 2006 13:58, Nic James Ferrier wrote:

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> To all those people who haven't tried LISP or Scheme I urge you to
> download and play with Guile. Scheme is probably the most interesting
> language that is easy to learn with really thought provoking and
> style changing concepts like continuations.

Here, here.  Scheme is definitely the one to go with.  I'd actually point 
people in the direction of chicken Scheme rather than GUILE (but that's a 
preference thing).

http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org

> Hackers love it.

We certainly do.

(define Y
  (lambda (f)
    ((lambda (x) (f (x x)))
     (lambda (x) (f (lambda (y) ((x x) y)))))))


:-)


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