[plt-scheme] Functions as first class data types.

2009/2/14 Grant Rettke <grettke at acm.org>:
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 6:24 PM, aditya shukla
> <adityashukla1983 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Can someone  please explain what's the use of having functions as first
>> class data type in scheme .I am a little confused about functions having
>> functions as their arguments .
>
> There are problems that you want to solve while programming where you
> will find that first class functions are one good solution. In their
> absence there are other good solutions, too.

Other good solutions such as objects:

http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/msg03277.html

    Henk