If Scheme is so good why MIT drops it?

MRAB python at mrabarnett.plus.com
Tue Jul 28 18:22:29 EDT 2009


magicus wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:11:02 +0100, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
>>> On Monday 27 July 2009 16:49:25 Aahz wrote:
>>>> In article <mailman.3765.1248685391.8015.python-list at python.org>,
>>>>
>>>> Hendrik van Rooyen  <hendrik at microcorp.co.za> wrote:
>>>>> On Sunday 26 July 2009 21:26:46 David Robinow wrote:
>>>>>>  I'm a mediocre programmer. Does this mean I should switch to PHP?
>>>>> I have searched, but I can find nothing about this mediocre language.
>>>>>
>>>>> Could you tell us more?
>>>>>
>>>> :-P
>>>>
>>>> (For anyone who is confused by Hendrik's humor, he is saying that
>>>> David was referring to a programming language named "mediocre". 
>>>> English grammar is confusing!)
>>> This is true - I intended, when I started the post, to make a crack
>>> about how he knew that he was mediocre - If there were some exam or
>>> test that you have to pass or fail to be able to make the claim to
>>> mediocrity. I was imagining a sort of devil's rating scale for
>>> programmers, that could cause one to say things like:  "I am studying
>>> hard so that I can get my mediocre certificate, and one day I hope to
>>> reach hacker rank".
>>>
>>> And then the similarity to "I am a COBOL programmer" struck me, and I
>>> abandoned the ratings.
>>>
>> If you were a "COBOL" programmer, would you want to shout about it? :-)
> 
> The last time I wrote anything in COBOL was sometime in the early 80s.
> Somehow that makes me feel good, heh.
> 
COBOL: it feels good when you stop. :-)

(I was actually referring to the convention of all capitals representing
shouting.)



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