[Swift-devel] Fwd: [gt-chatter] Re: The Snowtide Blog » Blog Archive » Why MIT now uses python instead of scheme for its undergraduate CS program

[Ian Foster]

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> From: Wei Tan <twtanwei at gmail.com>
> Date: March 29, 2009 9:17:57 PM CDT
> To: gt-chatter at googlegroups.com
> Cc: Frank Siebenlist <franks at mcs.anl.gov>
> Subject: [gt-chatter] Re: The Snowtide Blog » Blog Archive » Why MIT  
> now uses python instead of scheme for its undergraduate CS program
> Reply-To: gt-chatter at googlegroups.com
>
> another article regarding functional programming "welcome to the  
> functional web".
> It argues that functional language will be more popular in Web-scale  
> distributed
> computing paradigm (like cloud?)
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wei
>
>
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> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Frank Siebenlist  
> <franks at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>
> ...mixed emotions about this switch...
>
> My personal bible has been "Structure and Interpretation of Computer
> Programs" (SICP) ever since that book came out many eons ago, and with
> that, scheme/lisp has been near and dear...
>
> However, python isn't too bad either ;-) ...and you can use it for
> functional programming.
>
> http://blog.snowtide.com/2009/03/24/why-mit-now-uses-python-instead-of-scheme-for-its-undergraduate-cs-program
>
> No word yet about a possible refactoring of SICP onto python... now
> that would make the switch almost painless and would raise python even
> further up in the stratosphere of coolness...
>
> -Frank.
>
>
> ---
> Frank Siebenlist - franks at mcs.anl.gov
> The Globus Alliance | Argonne National Laboratory | University of
> Chicago
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> Ph.D. Wei Tan
> the University of Chicago | Argonne National Laboratory
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