[plt-scheme] A literary metaphor for Scheme

See what I mean? -- Matthias "-)

On Nov 6, 2005, at 8:58 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.
>
> And of course, everyone arm-wavingly agrees that he's really great,
> that he's done just about all that can be done with language and form,
> but almost no one reads him, and a only tiny handful have read all of
> him.
>
> What's your take, Prabhakar?
>
> nishad
> -- 
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>
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