PLT Scheme or Clojure

[Chris McGrath]

Hi,

The thread in the ruby ireland group [1] has thrown up Clojure as a suggestion. I think we should stick with PLT for the reasons I gave in that thread. Am prepared to have my mind changed by some better arguments :)

Paul, could you ask Jim:

* If the people in his study group had previous experience of lispy languages?
* If he would recommend a bunch of lispy newbs go straight to clojure?

Cheers,

Chris

[1] http://groups.google.com/group/ruby_ireland/browse_thread/thread/aec5f17baf84d75

[José Domínguez]

Hi again,

In my opinion sticking to the book would be the way to go, but after
doing the original exercises, it could be a good idea to give a go at
the Clojure translations. It will take more time and effort, but can
be fun and enrich the experience. Just a thought!

cheers,
José

[Paul Boxley]

Personally I'd like to stick with Scheme. I have no problem with
Clojure and I know other people have completed the SICP exercises in
Lisp, but I'd still rather follow the book.

Paul B.

On 4 Jun 2010, at 14:41, José Domínguez <jjdoming...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[Paul Wilson]

Jim says use Scheme

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Please excuse brevity and typos as sent from a phone

[mr_urf]

I agree. For two reasons.

First of all I hear that SICP is hard going, so adding any further
complications would be foolhardy ;)

Secondly, I've a little experience of Scheme (using Chicken) and it's
a great language.

Besides, it'll give the more masochistic amongst us a chance to go
through a seocnd time using Clojure :P

Alan

> > [1]http://groups.google.com/group/ruby_ireland/browse_thread/thread/aec5...

[Paul Wilson]

Slightly longer: what Jim actually said was "if you want to learn SICP use Scheme; if you want to use SICP to learn Clojure, use Clojure".

[Paul Boxley]

That actually makes a lot of sense :)

[FreeAgent]

Hi guys,

Thanks for considering the option of using Clojure.

I accept that the group is against it.

I'm still interested in being involved.

SICP is a classic computer science text.

Great name, by the way! "Anglo Celt". It beats "these islands", the
usual phrase when Irish and British politicians have a pow-wow.

Ciao,

Kevin.

[mr_urf]

Ha ha. Yeah, although now that the net is being flung wider it seems a
little less apt ;)

I'd still like to learn Clojure myself but I think I'll wait until
after the SICP. There's only so much my wee brain can take at any one
time.

[Paul Boxley]

Just read that PLT Scheme will now be renamed Racket.

http://plt-scheme.org/
http://www.racket-lang.org/new-name.html

[Chris McGrath]

Cheers,

Chris

On 4 Jun 2010, at 20:22, FreeAgent wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> Thanks for considering the option of using Clojure.
>

Thanks for posting to the Irish Clojure group.

> I accept that the group is against it.
>
> I'm still interested in being involved.
>

Cool, I'd say later this year there'll be a lot of us interested in how Clojure is different. Will be knocking on your door then :)

> SICP is a classic computer science text.
>
> Great name, by the way! "Anglo Celt". It beats "these islands", the
> usual phrase when Irish and British politicians have a pow-wow.
>
> Ciao,
>
> Kevin.

Cheers,

Chris

[Chris McGrath]

Good spot! They seem to be in the middle of updating the new site. Will have a check back later in the week.

Cheers,

Chris