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Re: [Plug] Pro Unix Colleges
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Nick R wrote:
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> Scheme?
Very pure, very cool Lisp dialect written by (I believe) Olin Shivers.
No loops or other control structures; just conditional branches and
recursion. Makes you think *very very hard*. Check it out at
http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/scheme-home.html.
Scheme is also the foundation of MIT's basic comp sci text, Structure
and Interpretation of Computer Programs. You might in a way consider it
the polar opposite of VB; then again, you might not...
BTW, what's wrong with Macs? They may not have a command line, but for
design work (Quark, Pagemaker, etc.) I have never seen a UI that let me
work as efficiently. At some point, after all, somebody has to get some
work done with these ridiculous machines <g>...
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