<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><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">Wei Tan <<a href="mailto:twtanwei@gmail.com">twtanwei@gmail.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>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">March 29, 2009 9:17:57 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] Re: 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>another article regarding functional programming "welcome to the functional web".<br>It argues that functional language will be more popular in Web-scale distributed<br>computing paradigm (like cloud?)<br><br>Best regards,<br> <br>Wei<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Frank Siebenlist <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:franks@mcs.anl.gov">franks@mcs.anl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <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" target="_blank">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 - <a href="mailto:franks@mcs.anl.gov">franks@mcs.anl.gov</a><br> The Globus Alliance | Argonne National Laboratory | University of<br> Chicago<br> <br> <br> <br> </blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Ph.D. Wei Tan<br>the University of Chicago | Argonne National Laboratory<br><a href="http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~wtan/">http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~wtan/</a><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 <a href="mailto:gt-chatter@googlegroups.com">gt-chatter@googlegroups.com</a> <br> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to <a href="mailto:gt-chatter+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com">gt-chatter+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</a> <br> For more options, visit this group at <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/gt-chatter?hl=en">http://groups.google.com/group/gt-chatter?hl=en</a><br> -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---<br> <br> </blockquote></div></body></html>