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From: Gian Luca Brunetti <gianluca.brune...@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: newbie question
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 13:35:19 -0700 (PDT)
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> Have you looked at Scheme shell, scsh?

Thank you for the suggestion: scsh is really very intesting and the
site has very useful examples.

I was just trying not to bet on specific implementations before I have
learned how to use the very basics of the language; and I think that
to do that I would most of all benefit from reading very simple,
little, non-implementation-dependent practical scripts.

In a sense, I am trying to figure out what I have to learn in
programming, and I would like very much that it turns to be Scheme.

One unmentionable reason for this is that I think id that heavily
indented Scheme code looks insanely great. One more serious reason is
that I think that operations on list suit my brain.

At cognitive level, I am heavily invested in fields other than
programming (building technology) and for a number of reasons I feel
that if I don't manage to use Scheme as soon as possible, this may
never happen. I'd not mind to end up writing in a child-like Scheme
for a while or even forever, provided that I very soon put myself in
the position of being capable to write some working code.

Best regards

Gian Luca Brunetti