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Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow@alum.mit.edu> writes: > > I think it would be more useful to make (at least one part of) the tutorial > targeted towards end-user scripting type tasks - text processing, filesystem > operations, etc. The Perl/Python/Tcl tutorials would be a better model here > than CL ones. > It's been a while since I looked at it, but my memory of python's tutorial was that it didn't cover much useful (so it probably isn't good to base it on). A scripting oriented bit should definately be included, though (maybe it should mostly be targeted towards scripting?). So perhaps some common things, like lowercasing all the files in a directory and things like that. > > One thing you definately should make a priority, though, is > > continuations, since these are probably the hardest thing to figure > > out for newbies to scheme. > > I don't think continuations should be mentioned at all in a tutorial aimed > at new users. I really doubt they will need them. > I might be thinking of something a bit bigger than what's being proposed :) They should probably get a mention, though; after all, they are supposed to be one of scheme's big selling points. -- Greg