[plt-scheme] behaviour of void?

Or Eliza-over-the-network.

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
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> On Feb 5, 2009, at 5:51 PM, Prabhakar Ragde wrote:
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>> Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote:
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>>> It's not too hard at all.  Our courses routinely assign these kinds of
>>> assignments.  But we also have to train our students to understand
>>> modern systems.
>>> SICP was not written for an interactive (in the sense of a
>>> computational model) era.  The world effort is an strong attempt to
>>> make functional programming just as relevant to modern computation.
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>> Now who is setting up dichotomies with loaded use of the word "modern"?
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>> You and your co-authors, in "Structure and Interpretation of the Computer
>> Science Curriculum", rightly criticize SICP for requiring too much domain
>> knowledge. One obvious use of world.ss is in simulation of physical
>> phenomena -- but this requires domain knowledge in physics at least (maybe
>> even fluid dynamics), not to mention knowing how to deal with computation
>> using inexact numbers, something I would rather avoid in first year.
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>> There must be non-gaming uses of world.ss that use discrete mathematics
>> and have serious computer science content. I just have difficulty,
>> personally, coming up with them. --PR
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> 1. Recall that universe.ss is replacing world.ss.
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> 2. How about a chat server? It's well within reach for universe.ss. Students
> can design their own features for the last few weeks of the course: type
> Hindi at one end, see German at the other :-)
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> -- Matthias
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