<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">an interesting article on the use of Python at MIT<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Frank Siebenlist <<a href="mailto:franks@mcs.anl.gov">franks@mcs.anl.gov</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">March 28, 2009 9:19:14 PM CDT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:gt-chatter@googlegroups.com">gt-chatter@googlegroups.com</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Cc: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Frank Siebenlist <<a href="mailto:franks@mcs.anl.gov">franks@mcs.anl.gov</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>[gt-chatter] The Snowtide Blog » Blog Archive » Why MIT now uses python instead of scheme for its undergraduate CS program</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Reply-To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:gt-chatter@googlegroups.com">gt-chatter@googlegroups.com</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><div><br>...mixed emotions about this switch...<br><br>My personal bible has been "Structure and Interpretation of Computer <br>Programs" (SICP) ever since that book came out many eons ago, and with <br>that, scheme/lisp has been near and dear...<br><br>However, python isn't too bad either ;-) ...and you can use it for <br>functional programming.<br><br><a href="http://blog.snowtide.com/2009/03/24/why-mit-now-uses-python-instead-of-scheme-for-its-undergraduate-cs-program">http://blog.snowtide.com/2009/03/24/why-mit-now-uses-python-instead-of-scheme-for-its-undergraduate-cs-program</a><br><br>No word yet about a possible refactoring of SICP onto python... now <br>that would make the switch almost painless and would raise python even <br>further up in the stratosphere of coolness...<br><br>-Frank.<br><br><br>---<br>Frank Siebenlist - franks@mcs.anl.gov<br>The Globus Alliance | Argonne National Laboratory | University of <br>Chicago<br><br><br>--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~<br>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "globus" group.<br>To post to this group, send email to gt-chatter@googlegroups.com<br>To unsubscribe from this group, send email to gt-chatter+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com<br>For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gt-chatter?hl=en<br>-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---<br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>