From: "Linas Vepstas" <linasvepstas@gmail.com>
To: "Bertalan Fodor" <lilypondtool@organum.hu>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 1+ is not R5RS
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:34:02 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ae3aa420812190834t69136006s95c5fcdfa94f6f09@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <494B5019.9010707@organum.hu>
2008/12/19 Bertalan Fodor <lilypondtool@organum.hu>:
> Thank you for your suggestion. I was thinking for a long time about these,
> and still I'm not convinced (by myself :-)) to use these projects. The
> little pecularities of these I think would make the effort as hard as
> creating a new one. Sisc's implementation was extremely complicated for my
> simple mind, so I'm using JScheme for some ideas.
> Also I wanted to learn by doing - I think this argument in itself is enough
> :-)
Well, be careful. Your email -- to paraphrase -- sounds like:
"I want to learn how to build a skyscraper, and I am going to
start from scratch, using a hammer, nails and wood." If you
really want to learn how to build a skyscraper, you go work
on a real one for a while -- where you find out why they use
steel and other such difficult-to-manipulate, "extremely
complicated" techniques which your simple-mind
(hammer-n-nails) has difficulty with.
Its a different kind of learning, less rewarding at first -- it can
take years before you are confident enough to make large
changes to the core design -- but its a better kind of learning
in the long run.
--linas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-19 16:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-18 15:17 1+ is not R5RS Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
2008-12-18 21:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2008-12-18 22:31 ` Clinton Ebadi
2008-12-19 4:24 ` Keith Wright
2008-12-19 9:43 ` Ralf Mattes
2008-12-19 6:09 ` Linas Vepstas
2008-12-19 7:41 ` Bertalan Fodor
2008-12-19 16:34 ` Linas Vepstas [this message]
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2008-12-19 19:29 Bertalan Fodor
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