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On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 09:00:39AM -0500, guile@sparrowsys.com wrote: > > >>>>> "Klaus" == Klaus Schilling <Klaus.Schilling@home.ivm.de> writes: > > > Python is much harder to learn than Scheme, due to the irregular > > syntax. > > > This seems to largely be a mindset thing. Or, to put it another > way, there are people who think of code functionally and people > who don't. > > I have an extremely intelligent friend who just doesn't grok > scheme or lisp. On the other hand, he will happily crank out perl > and python all day. > > There must be something in some people's brains that keep them > from grasping the concepts of functional programming. This is the i find this to be the case too. i'm one of those who can crank out perl code like no tomorrow, but i've been beating my head against a wall for a long while now trying to get a handle on this whole functional programming thing. buying SICP really helped the process along though. all i can say is, once i finally 'get it' it better be as cool as everyone is making it out to be. i'd hate to waste all this time and effort :-) -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ray Lehtiniemi (rayl@mail.com)