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Tips for working through The Little Schemer? With Arc?
3 points by tlrobinson 5534 days ago | 8 comments
Just picked up a copy of The Litter Schemer. Wondering if it's worth using Arc to work through the problems?

If so, is there a summary of the differences I should know, if any?

(I have very limited experience with Arc/Scheme, in case that's not clear)



3 points by projectileboy 5533 days ago | link

It's my first time through The Little Schemer, and I've been using Arc instead of Scheme because... well, because it's just so pretty. I could post my files thus far on a wiki if anyone would care... I'm currently on Chapter 8.

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1 point by justgord 5524 days ago | link

Please do share.

Enjoyed your ppt slide talk on Arc posted elsewhere on this forum. [ converted to text - let me know if you want that]

They'd both be helpful on a Wiki.

gord.

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2 points by anarcer 5533 days ago | link

Great! TIA

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0 points by markokocic 5533 days ago | link

Don't do it.

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3 points by bgutierrez 5533 days ago | link

I just finished this book and I don't think you'd find much benefit from trying to use arc instead of scheme. The Little Schemer as about computation, not practical programming.

It's a fun book. Enjoy!

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1 point by tlrobinson 5525 days ago | link

I'm only on the third commandment, but so far I'm really bored... does it get better?

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1 point by w8lvn 5518 days ago | link

It is worthwhile, even if it is a little boring for a bit.

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1 point by justgord 5524 days ago | link

In fact I wonder if anyone has ported pg's Arc macros to Scheme... it seems a lot of the benefit of the language would still be there without a full Arc syntax implementation.

It could be seen as an experiment to see how much an Arc without special language extensions would feel like the real Arc - eg. minus square brackets etc.

My feeling is that merely having nice short abbreviations buys quite a lot - but hell, Ive written mostly C code, so you may rightly cringe at the lobotimization.

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