[plt-scheme] The perfect teaching language--Is this too much to ask for?

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 12:29 AM, Shriram Krishnamurthi<sk at cs.brown.edu> wrote:
> I cannot improve on Eli's excellent essay, but I can provide concrete
> evidence for one of his abstract points: Scala.  (Which, in turn, has
> baked in its own inflexibilities.)

I spent a bit of time on the Scala list. It was
interesting/amusing/instructive that requests for new syntax were
fairly frequent. And Scala already has a very complex syntax.

N.