Scheme as a virtual machine?

[Howard Brazee]

On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 08:14:40 -0800 (PST), toby
<toby at telegraphics.com.au> wrote:

>This is a good (if familiar) observation. Teaching children (or young
>people with little exposure to computers) how to program in various
>paradigms could produce interesting primary evidence. Pity that this
>isn't examined widely and systematically. We could learn something
>about how to teach programming and design languages this way, don't
>you agree?

I do.

A study such as that would be more useful than how to teach languages
- it could be useful in teaching other stuff as well.

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