Re: lisp & scheme

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From: Gregory Alan Bolcer (gbolcer@endtech.com)
Date: Mon Mar 20 2000 - 10:24:16 PST

Learning how to close parens 17 levels deep forces you to learn
the structures in your mind quicker so you can program in your sleep. Besides,
that's nothing a little vi .exrc configs won't cure.

set noautoindent
set autoprint
set noignorecase
set nomesg
set noslowopen
set terse
set nonumber
set showmatch
set report=2
set wrapmargin=8

Robert Harley wrote:
>
> I would also recommend ML, either SML or CAML.
>
> The difference from Lisp is that Lisp will teach you to close parentheses
> nested 17 deep, whereas ML will teach you functional programming.
>
> Bye,
> Rob. 

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