[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: What is a lightweight language



jmarshall@mak.com wrote:

> One cost of call-with-current-continuation is the hurdle it introduces
> to acceptance of the language.  People think `oooh, cwcc is scary and
> bizarre, I don't want to hack scheme because I need to understand cwcc
> in toto before I write *anything*'.

Tens of thousands of students learn Scheme every day without running
into this hurdle.

Shriram