Series: Feel the cool, Basics, Closures, Recursion, Quotation, Lambda, Macros.
Here’s me trying to persuade you to be interested in a 40-year-old programming language, called Scheme, which is a type of Lisp:
Scheme 1: Feel the cool video
Cool:-) just watched part 1. Enjoyable intro. Look fwd to watching the next couple. Other than fun & cool what was your motivation for learning scheme (writing emacs macros?)
Hi Pete, thanks! A friend recommended Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, and after a couple of pages I was hooked. Also I am interested, one day, in writing my own language, so learning Lisp was a necessary prerequisite…