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From: Joel James Adamson <adamsonj@email.unc.edu>
To: maledetto <maledetto@online.de>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: a straight way to testing the own scheme capabilities?
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:42:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m34o929jzu.fsf@chondestes.bio.unc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110121181842.bfa69ce2.maledetto@online.de> (maledetto@online.de's message of "Fri, 21 Jan 2011 18:18:42 +0100")

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maledetto <maledetto@online.de> writes:

> On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:07:49 -0500
> Joel James Adamson <adamsonj@email.unc.edu> wrote:
>
>> Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org> writes:
>> 
>> > () maledetto <maledetto@online.de>
>> > () Thu, 20 Jan 2011 23:12:25 +0100
>> >
>> >    aren't there some tests out there?
>> >
>> > What would such a test look like?
>> 
>> To the OP: Can you be more specific about what you want?  I suggest
>> reading The Little Schemer[1] if you want to really understand the
>> concepts behind the language.  That book advanced my thinking
>> hugely.  I still refer to it occasionally.
>> 
>> Joel
>> 
>
> there's a simple reason for my question. i'm in the need to quickly
> refresh my knowledge about the language because of a possible job in the
> very near future.

Perhaps pick a programming task, write a program in Scheme, and then
submit it here or comp.lang.scheme and solicit comments.  I still don't
understand how you'd get more out of some kind of "test" than you would
get out of just using the language again.

Joel

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      reply	other threads:[~2011-01-21 18:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-20 16:48 a straight way to testing the own scheme capabilities? maledetto
2011-01-20 16:58 ` Aleix Conchillo Flaqué
2011-01-20 17:07 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2011-01-20 22:12   ` maledetto
2011-01-21 10:21     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2011-01-21 14:07       ` Joel James Adamson
2011-01-21 17:18         ` maledetto
2011-01-21 18:42           ` Joel James Adamson [this message]

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