From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: About sweet-expression
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 07:42:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ipiixma5.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAPjoZocFUGenqJ3m=0pPm1XqqmU76ofci+NzVuAzYexw17PQ6A@mail.gmail.com
Nala Ginrut <nalaginrut@gmail.com> writes:
> I try to port sweet-expression to newest Guile. Fortunately, the
> author wrote a compatible version for old Guile in 2008. So I just try
> to rewrite part of it for some obvious reasons. It woks fine now.
>
> Though some guys doesn't like sweet-expression at all (OK, they're
> real Lispers! But me too ;-)). I'm not a big fan to write Scheme like
> this:
> -----------------------
> define fibfast(n)
> if {n < 2}
> n
> fibup(n 2 1 0)
> -----------------------
> But I think it maybe useful for newbies especially came from Python of
> C.
That's like thinking the easiest path for a Franch-speaking newbie to
learn English is to start by learning Latin.
You'll find that kind of opinion expressed mostly by people fascinated
with Latin rather than English.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-06 6:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-06 3:21 About sweet-expression Nala Ginrut
2012-03-06 3:22 ` Nala Ginrut
2012-03-06 4:35 ` Mark H Weaver
2012-03-12 17:17 ` Nala Ginrut
2012-03-12 19:05 ` Mark H Weaver
2012-03-13 2:01 ` Nala Ginrut
2012-03-13 3:51 ` Nala Ginrut
2012-04-12 1:53 ` Nala Ginrut
2012-03-06 6:42 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2012-03-06 8:16 ` Nala Ginrut
2012-03-12 16:47 ` Nala Ginrut
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