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On Dec 29, 2015, at 10:55 PM, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via =
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

> Every EE I know can do some C. Only a small number from MIT know
> scheme

Peter Brett? Vladimir? Not from MIT. I=92m from MIT, but not from EECS.

> and in the words of one professor there "We stopped using it
> when we realized there was more value in educating the students than
> torturing them.=94

They didn=92t really teach students to write practical programs in =
Scheme. It=92s weird to me that MIT  folks like Ales and Stuart used =
lots of tail recursion (tricky) and not more straightforward functional =
constructs like map and for-each in their Scheming for gEDA, but I guess =
that=92s how they were taught.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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