[REBOL] Re: teaching rebol
From: gerardcote:sympatico:ca at: 3-Apr-2003 21:01
Hi Ingo,
> Hi Gerard, and all interested,
>
> as coincidences go, I just had the idea to write something up in the
> style of the "little Schemer", so here it is "The Little Reboler".
>
> Tell me what you think about it so far (I know, it's only 4 and a bit
> pages, but anyway ...)
This remembers me the Little Lisper I bought back in the 70s. A nice form of learning
based on questions and answers - like an
interview. I looked at your work from the ref. posted on the RIT Vanilla web site by
Graham.
I didn't review it all but I can do it for you and the REBOL community in the next few
days for letting you get some feedback about
it.
Nice work, Ingo
Keep up the good work,
-- Gerard
P.S. Personnally this learning style didn't do very well for me in the past with Lisp
learning. Since at this time I had no access
to any Lisp system I couldn't figure out very well all what Lisp 1.5 had to offer to
me and at the time I found this language had
some parts that were hard to understand when compared with FORTRAN which I learned before
during my college years. Even APL that I
also touched later was hard to live with at first with its own cryptic greek screen and
keyboard symbols and then I didn't recognize
much resemblance for the 2 beasts. Now it could be different but now is another time
too... and some 30 years later ...
