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From: leipold@eplrx7.UUCP (leipold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: I need a good programming environment!
Message-ID: <801@eplrx7.UUCP>
Date: 19 Sep 89 12:34:59 GMT
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Reply-To: leipold@eplrx7.UUCP (Walt Leipold)
Organization: E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.
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Have you tried MacScheme+Toolsmith (from Lightship Software)?  I've been
using it for over a year, and it's real nice.  It's a little slow for
heavy-duty number crunching, but I've used it to prototype some algorithms
for later translation to C, Pascal, and (gasp) FORTRAN.  It can generate
reasonably compact standalone applications.  And it even supports multiple
concurrent Scheme tasks, so you can experiment with parallel programming.

Scheme is a great language; it's only object-oriented when you want it to
be.  Also, the  best introductory computer science text in the known
universe (Abelson & Sussman, "The Structure and Interpretation of Computer
Programs") is in Scheme.  And yes, I have Digitalk's Smalltalk/V too; it is
a lot of fun, but more confusing to us old folks than "traditional"
object-oriented programming in languages like Scheme, Pascal, and C.

Disclaimer: I have no connection with Lightship Software whatsoever
(except that they're a _real_ friendly bunch of people to deal with).
-- 
"As long as you've lit one candle,                         Walt Leipold
you're allowed to curse the darkness."       (leipolw%esvax@dupont.com)
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