Re: Scheme is too complicated

[David Welton <davidw@gate.cks.com>]

On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 11:15:24AM +0100, Klaus Schilling wrote:
> David Welton writes:
>  > 
>  > I would put my 'difficulties with scheme' issues in 2 categories: 1.
>  > it really *is* different from everything else I've done..  I
>  > definitely fumed a bit when I discovered that there was no 'while'
>  > built into the language (and appluaded the fact that guile does have
>  > one), and 2. the fact that, except for some things here and there like
>  > slib and guile, scheme doesn't seem aimed so much at the "everyday
>  > programming tasks" crowd, like Perl, Python, Tcl, etc..  I think Guile
>  > will help change this.
> 
> 'while' can be easily replaced with recursion or a do construct, I don't see 
> any reason for missing it.

Well, my point was more regarding the difficulties of learning scheme
for those of us who started out with more C oriented things.  While is
pretty much a given in those languages.  As someone who prefers to
wade in and sort out the details as I go, it was a bit disconcerting
to find myself unable to construct a simple loop.  Of course, I've
since figured it out:->

Ciao, 
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