Scheme as a virtual machine?

[Howard Brazee]

On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 05:38:53 +0100, Ertugrul Söylemez <es at ertes.de>
wrote:

>Haskell is a simple language with a comparably small specification.
>It's not as simple as Common Lisp, but it's simple.  Note that simple
>doesn't mean easy.  Haskell is certainly more difficult to learn than
>other languages, which explains the low number of success stories.  On
>the other hand, I'm doing rapid web development in it.

I wonder how much that difficulty is innate, and how much is due to
learning other languages first.

I'm an old time CoBOL programmer, and know of quite a few people who
tried to learn OO-CoBOL without much luck.   The way to learn it was
to forget it - learn OO with some other language, then come back to it
later.    We had to divorce ourselves from the old paradigm first.    

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