Re: [Chicken-users] Re: Style Guide

[Peter Bex]

On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 12:16:12PM +0100, Tobia Conforto wrote:
> William Ramsay wrote:
> > Is there such a thing as a Chicken/Scheme style guide? [...] If there
> > is such a thing as teaching an old dog new tricks I'd like to try.
> 
> Your last sentence makes me think that you're referring to algorithm
> design, not mere syntax style.  Things like learning to use closures and
> continuations effectively, learning to express iterative processes with
> recursive syntax, and so on.
> 
> If that's the case, I'm finding SICP[1] and The * Schemer series[2] very
> interesting reads.  Even if you already know most of the concepts and
> half the tricks in them, they are worth reading for the other half.

+1 on that!
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