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From: "Steven Miale" <smiale@cs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: What language would you use?
Message-ID: <1994Nov7.094552.13947@news.cs.indiana.edu>
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Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University
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In article <39hlel$i7l@larry.rice.edu>,
Shriram Krishnamurthi <shriram@asia.cs.rice.edu> wrote:
>"Steven Miale" <smiale@cs.indiana.edu> writes:
>
>> And I've seen people with years of Scheme programming under their belts sit
>> there and count parens to make sure they are balanced. Silly; this is the
>> '90s, not the '60s.
>
>Precisely.  Use an editor that does your matching for you and that
>tells you what's matching what.

This only works if all the code fits on the screen. If the program is
a thousand lines long and consists of many functions, this won't help much.

>> It gives many of the benefits of Scheme (interpreted, not having to
>> worry about types, etc.) with a clean, procedural syntax.
>
>What, pray, is an "interpreted" language?

Uh, not a compiled language? :-)

>Jfyi, Kent Dybvig, one of your professors, is the chief author of the
>leading Scheme *compiler*.

I know. I took his course :-) I see what you mean, though.

Steve
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Steven Miale  <http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hyplan/smiale.html>
