[plt-scheme] Any good book that covers PLT Scheme

From: Matthias Felleisen (matthias at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 2 20:57:50 EST 2006

On Feb 2, 2006, at 8:19 PM, Bruce Durling wrote:

> WRT OO Programming, I would have to ask why you would look at scheme 
> for that? I know it can be done and scheme is a great research 
> language on different ways of doing OO, but *I* don't think of it as 
> an OO language. I know it is multi-paradigm and you can do a lot with 
> it, but I'm looking for the macros and functional programming aspects 
> of it to give my brain a work out. I really don't mean to flame bait, 
> but maybe you should look at Smalltalk for a pure OO experience or 
> Java (today's COBOL and the way I pay my bills) as a mainstream OO 
> environment.

Why don't you look at the PLT Scheme object system, its mixins, its 
integration with the module and unit systems, its uses, and then holler 
again.

-- Matthias




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