From: Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org)
Date: Mon Mar 20 2000 - 07:46:38 PST
John Klassa wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> I've established a goal for myself, for the next few months, to learn
> another programming language. I stopped learning new languages, for
> their own sake, a while back and am feeling stifled.
>
> Anyway, believe it or not, I never learned lisp (other than the smallish
> bits required to tweak Emacs :-)). I was always a scientific computing
> weenie (I started with BASIC, then went the Fortran and C route, with
> some Pascal thrown in for fun; once I discovered scripting languages, I
> pretty much never went back).
>
> It is my understanding that lisp and scheme are fairly closely
> related... Would there be an advantage to learning one over the other,
> given that I probably won't use either very much, but am learning more
> or less for the sake of broadening my horizons a bit? In either case,
> is there a standard book that one recommends when the topic comes up?
For Scheme, I think a very good book is:
Abelson und Sussman H. Abelson, G.J. Sussman,
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs,
Cambridge (Mass.) 1985, S. 1 Copyright ©
1996-99 All Rights Reserved.
http://18.36.0.166/book-home.tcl?isbn=0262011530
- Ian
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