[plt-scheme] A literary metaphor for Scheme

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On Nov 6, 2005, at 5:58 PM, nishad at ptolemy.tlg.uci.edu wrote:

> Prabhakar Ragde wrote:
>>
>> If Scheme were a literary figure, who would it be?
>>
>> I mean an author, but naming a character might also work. I have some
>> ideas, but will wait to share them with those who are interested.  
>> --PR
>>
>
> Joyce, obviously.  Capable of everything: small, accessible perfection
> (Dubliners, Portrait); unbelievable greatness and complexity
> (Ulysses); outright reader-nuking incomprehensibility (Finnegans
> Wake).
>
> Read "higher order functions", "macros", "continuations", "closures",
> ... as and where you see fit.

How about Flann O'Brien (The Third Policeman).  Wacky story about  
dimensions, time loops (continuations), and so forth.  And penned  
around 1940, so way ahead of its time....
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