From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Wed Jun 02 1999 - 11:48:24 MDT
Billy Brown writes:
> > Python: There Is A Better Programming Language.
If you thought Perl was cool, try Python. http://www.python.org/doc/
has many excellent introductions.
> > Scheme: There Is A Better Programming Language.
Scheme is a smaller, simpler, cleaner Lisp. Beautiful beyond words.
Try Guile here http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html
or the Scheme Underground http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/su/su.html
by Olin Shivers http://www.ai.mit.edu/~shivers/
For instance, programming in Scheme can lead you to this:
ftp://lambda.ai.mit.edu/pub/shivers/ack.txt
[Acknowledgements page, taken from the *Scsh Reference Manual*]
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Acknowledgements
Who should I thank? My so-called "colleagues," who laugh at me behind my
back, all the while becoming famous on my work? My worthless graduate
students, whose computer skills appear to be limited to downloading bitmaps
off of netnews? My parents, who are still waiting for me to quit "fooling
around with computers," go to med school, and become a radiologist? My
department chairman, a manager who gives one new insight into and sympathy for
disgruntled postal workers?
My God, no one could blame me -- no one! -- if I went off the edge and just
lost it completely one day. I couldn't get through the day as it is without
the Prozac and Jack Daniels I keep on the shelf, behind my Tops-20 JSYS
manuals. I start getting the shakes real bad around 10am, right before my
advisor meetings. A 10 oz. Jack 'n Zac helps me get through the meetings
without one of my students winding up with his severed head in a bowling-ball
bag. They look at me funny; they think I twitch a lot. I'm not twitching. I'm
controlling my impulse to snag my 9mm Sig-Sauer out from my day-pack and make
a few strong points about the quality of undergraduate education in Amerika.
If I thought anyone cared, if I thought anyone would even be reading this,
I'd probably make an effort to keep up appearances until the last possible
moment. But no one does, and no one will. So I can pretty much say exactly
what I think.
Oh, yes, the acknowledgements. I think not. I did it. I did it all, by myself.
Olin Shivers
Cambridge
September 4, 1994
> > Eiffel: There Is A Better Programming Language.
>
> I've never looked at any of these languages. What are their advantages?
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