[plt-scheme] Papers on criticism of Scheme?

From: Michael Sperber (sperber at deinprogramm.de)
Date: Sat Nov 8 12:39:07 EST 2008

Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> writes:

> On Nov 2, 2008, at 2:11 PM, Grant Rettke wrote:
>
>> http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/miranda/wadler87.pdf
>>
>> was referenced recently. It was interesting to see criticisms of
>> Scheme from someone who knew Scheme. I think Wadler knew it well.
>
>
> Phil knows Scheme the way I know Fortran iv. But he has a good point
> about the use of primitive Scheme subsets in education.

I wish it had come from actual experience with learners rather than
teacher-centric hypothesis.

-- 
Cheers =8-} Mike
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