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From: simon@rheged.dircon.co.uk (Simon Brooke)
Subject: Re: Prefix syntax
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In article <3l0cqq$7p5@larry.rice.edu>,
Shriram Krishnamurthi <shriram@europa.cs.rice.edu> wrote:
>
>Though we do not rely on any one text, we do make students work
>through the book The Little Lisper (Friedman and Felleisen) in the
>early part of the course.
>

Agreed: excellent book to teach from. ISBN 0-262-56038-0; published by
MIT Press in 1987. It teaches a very simple elegant functional LisP,
introduces recursion on page 15, and never bothers with iteration at
all. After all, if you can recurse, why iterate? spot the deliberate
flame bait :-} 

Seriously though, it's short, light hearted, simple, direct and
effective.  Works with kids as young as eight as well as with adults.
Try it (even if you've been writing in LisP for years).

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------- simon@rheged.dircon.co.uk (Simon Brooke)

	;; When your hammer is C++, everything begins to look like a thumb.
