From: Stefan Schmiedl <s@...>
Date: 2004-06-14T01:33:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby, Scheme, Dylan, etc.

On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 14:23:33 +0900,
Nicholas Van Weerdenburg <nick@activehitconsulting.com> wrote:
>
> Blocks have made me feel that I may have missed something important that 
> is offered by functional programming languages (my entire career has 
> been essentially OO). A Ruby-Python comparison that lead to a few 
> articles on Lisp and higher-order functions made me think that learning 
> Lisp/Scheme would significantly enhance my journey to programming 
> enlightenment, largely because of their strengths in this area.

And while you're planning your trip, let me remind you to not skip the
Forth corner. It will probably rough going first, when you're coming
from heavyweight environments like Lisp etc., but there is precious
knowledge to be found over there.

s.