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On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Klaus Schilling wrote: > With decent documentation, guile could be learnt in 21 hours, provided > that one knows some other scheme already. "Scheme in 21 days" would be a > different issue. actually, I had a rather hard time learning Scheme; I mean, becoming comfortable enough with it for solving everday programming tasks. At the time I first began learning it, I was an okay FORTRAN programmer and a barely competent shell/Perl programmer. The idea of variable closures blew me away, and functional programming techniques were real slippery for me. In fact, I'd never even been introduced to the notion of lexical scoping before. face it guys, Scheme is programmer's programming language; newbies beware. > > Klaus Schilling > Jay jglascoe@jay.giss.nasa.gov