so i'm fickle...

[inkedmn]

alright, after flip-flopping over functional programming for the past month or so, i've decided that i'm going to try haskell. i like the way the syntax looks, and i'm stoked to get a better understanding of recursion (as well as all other attributes of functional programming)...

so, yeah. that's it :)

[Bradmont]

I learned Scheme in my Foundations of Sequential Programs class, it was pretty cool, but takes a bit of getting used to. :p

[jamessan]

I just finished my scheme^H^H^H^H^H^Hrecursive thinking class. It is definitely an interesting language, but I didn't really see a use for it. We had a couple of assignments where we used it to create web-pages, but it seemed like more work than it was worth. I guess if it was set up to generate dynamic pages with the code, it could be useful, but I've never heard of a server that offers scheme support.

[bwkaz]

You wouldn't really need a server that offers Scheme support. Just install Apache and set up the CGI part of it so that it recognizes executable Scheme programs and fires up the interpreter for them. Just like most servers do with Perl/PHP/whatever else. Of course, you would need the rest of the world to be able to get to your IP, and you'd probably want a DNS name...

But there are other things that Scheme is good for, I'm sure. Like writing a quick-and-dirty programming language (we did that in our Lisp^H^H^H^HProgramming Languages class).