Subject: Re: indentation (was Re: About the article) From: Ron Ross <ronross@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 14:18:49 -0400 (EDT) |
On Fri, 7 May 1999, DPawson@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > As someone who went through this some time back > (about 18 months ago), I was drawn into it via some very > simple examples, then Paul P's great intro. (Indeed.) > A simplepage sequence, > a few make paragraphs etc > and hey presto I had RTF output. > Instant gratification. > > That could be used as the 'bait' in a selling exercise? I agree wholeheartedly. While having very little programming experience, I took to DSSSL immediately through just such an exercise (hail once again to Paul's tutorial). Admittedly, I did have a couple of years' experience tinkering with Emacs, and therefore a fair amount of (e)lisp exposure. But I came to Emacs with absolutely *no* programming, and roughly at the same time that I decided to finally have a look at the Elisp intro, I was also attempting to get a minimal grip on JavaScript. Moderately complex code in either (or any) language still leaves me in a muddle, but certainly the ugly ladder of intertwined variable operations that one finds in JavaScript is, if anything, _less_ intelligible to the neophyte than the nested expressions of lisp-based languages. I wonder if there might be predisposition for one kind of language or another. My educational (and recreational) background is rather literary, and lisp always struck me as being somewhat "literary" itself;-). On the other hand, eons back, I scraped through my last high school math class by the thinnest skin of my teeth ... BTW, I'm also interested in trying Scheme. (Since I'm learning some of the language, it would be fun to have a compiled little program with a bit of GUI to show for it:-) Does anyone have a Scheme compiler to recommend for programming on Win95? I've downloaded and installed STk, but I'm getting lots of error messages and disfunctional behavior from the GUI (Tk) part of it. I know, I will contact STk's maintainer about this, but I thought people here might shed some light on the best path to take. Thanks in advance. Cheers, Ron . DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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