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  1. Re:Get the Little Schemer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on What Programming Languages Should You Learn Next?

    Free resources for Scheme.

    The classic, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs:
    http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html

    SICP videos:
    http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/

    How To Design Programs (somewhat PLT Scheme specific):
    http://www.htdp.org/2003-09-26/Book/

    The Scheme Programming Language (somewhat Chez Scheme specific):
    http://www.scheme.com/tspl3/

    Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days (also PLT to an extent):
    http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dorai/t-y-scheme/t-y-scheme.html

    Of course there are others, and most of these can be bought in dead-tree form.

  2. Re:Backwards System by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting · on "Security Engineering" Is Now Online
    Yet if they don't get it into print, it can't be used in a classroom setting.

    Fortunately, this isn't always true! While taking my advanced operating systems course, we used Linux Device Drivers which is available online for free. This is also the case with my Programming Languages class where we learned and wrote an interpreter for Scheme. Then, in my computers and society class we used ESR's writings and Stallman's biography.

    Maybe more topics could be covered in free format... Seems to me like Google is making life easier for some English courses and MIT already has opencourseware up and running.

    Guess I went off on a tangent over one little line... :)
  3. Re:Recursive main() by sinserve · · Score: 1 · on Protothreads and Other Wicked C Tricks

    Learn Scheme or learn computing using Scheme. Or learn to appreciate art and still get something done.

    Nirvana.

  4. Re:$9940 by tepples · · Score: 1 · on LokiTorrent vs. MPAA

    but doesn't one have to put up money for it to really be a scheme?

    No, it doesn't have to cost money; it just has to optimize all tail calls.

  5. Re:OT:Re:PCs are LBAs, and Halting for LBAs is sol by tepples · · Score: 1 · on Java Faster Than C++?

    PROVE: if an LBA does not halt for a given input, then it will loop through the same state.

    An LBA with k possible characters per cell, n cells, s possible states of the head, and p possible tape positions has p*s*k^n total states. This finite number of states is the major difference between an LBA and a TM. Therefore, if you run the machine for p*s*k^n + 1 states, it will have either halted or gone through a state more than once. The tortoise-and-hare method is a convenient optimization derived from a method given as an algorithm in The Scheme Programming Language to detect cyclic lists.

  6. Toki Pona has 120 words by yerricde · · Score: 2 · on ICFP 2002 Contest Winners Announced

    Is Spanish better than English? Does Japanese trump Swahili?

    What about Toki Pona? It's a small spoken language with 120 words that don't inflect. Whether Toki Pona is small in a practical way or small in an impractical way is still up in the air.

  7. Classics... by joto · · Score: 5, Informative · on Net Translations of Dead-Tree IT Classics