I know various people that are taking Intro to Computer Science at my university. The class starts out in Scheme (ie Miniture LISP) then progresses on to JAVA. There teacher tells them that Scheme is the basis for JAVA (not the syntax but the underlying-operation). I've used both and I really don't see any parralles...
Does anyone else see how JAVA is built upon Scheme (if it is at all...)
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I know various people that are taking Intro to Computer Science at my university. The class starts out in Scheme (ie Miniture LISP) then progresses on to JAVA. There teacher tells them that Scheme is the basis for JAVA (not the syntax but the underlying-operation). I've used both and I really don't see any parralles... Does anyone else see how JAVA is built upon Scheme (if it is at all...)