[plt-scheme] Hit People Over the Head with HtDP

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Grant Rettke <grettke at acm.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Neil Van Dyke <neil at neilvandyke.org> wrote:
>> Random people with Web pages about Scheme, like myself, can also do our part
>> to point people in the right direction:
>
> Have you found some successful ways to communicate, or convince,
> experienced programmers that there is something for them to learn with
> HtDP?
>
> Most "experienced programmers" tend to be convinved that there is
> nothing left to learn but new APIs and frameworks.

Funny word that, "experience."  My late Judo teacher used to talk
about the difference between "20 years' worth of experience" and "one
year's worth, repeated 20 times over."

Mike