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Re: peasant revolt against DrScheme!

To: matthias@rice.edu
Subject: Re: peasant revolt against DrScheme!
From: sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor])
Date: 29 Jan 2001 16:48:05 +0100
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>>>>> "Matthias" == Matthias Felleisen <matthias@cs.rice.edu> writes:

Matthias> Mike, how do you measure the 'reasonably well' in this remark: 

Matthias>   "Well, it may be the first, but I don't think it's an especially bad
Matthias>    example.  It's worked reasonably well for us twice in a row."

Did I write "first"?  I meant "worst".  Goodness.

Matthias> Matching recursive data definitions with recursive function
Matthias> designs (from which you derive complete functions) appeals
Matthias> to both hackers who know "everything" and kids who have
Matthias> never opened a CS book let alone programmed.

Sure.  I never meant to critizice your approach.  It's just that
starting out with FACTORIAL seemed to flatten out the learning curve
somewhat.

-- 
Cheers =8-} Mike
Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla

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- Re: peasant revolt against DrScheme!
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- Re: peasant revolt against DrScheme!
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- Re: peasant revolt against DrScheme!
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- Re: peasant revolt against DrScheme!
  - From: Matthias Felleisen <matthias@cs.rice.edu>

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