[plt-scheme] Can you study HTDP to satisfy the goal to learn Functional Programming?

From: Noel Welsh (noelwelsh at gmail.com)
Date: Tue Sep 9 16:29:13 EDT 2008

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Grant Rettke <grettke at acm.org> wrote:
> Since HTDP is %75 pure FP, is that a good place to start? Having read
> 50 pages or so into it, I feel like the data-driven approach makes
> sense.

I think the data-driven / HtDP approach is the core of FP style.
There is a lot more to FPt, but that is the essential part.  You could
write the same code in Scheme. ML, Haskell etc. with only minor
differences due to syntax.

N.


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