On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 2:42 PM, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
Oh~well, let them be. This sweet won't make Latin fans engulf English
world.
Take it easy. I believe it's a good way to show how prefix is better than
infix in some cases.



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> David Kastrup
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