4/16 Whoa, I just heard that MIT discontinued 6.001 (classic scheme)
to 6.01. In fact, 6.00, 6.01 and 6.02 all use Python. What the
hell? What has the world become? It's a sad sad day. SICP forever!
\_ old story, they've ditched that shitty book and lang for a while.
\_ I used to think scheme was cool, then I saw Ka Ping Yee's
"Beautiful Code" class aka 61a in python, and converted.
\_ "SICP Forever" means you weren't listening when UCB CS said
"we are trying to teach you computer science independent of
implementation, since implementation fads come and go."
\_ Well played.
\_ I know someone who was there for the first year they offered it.
They made it optional, and the curriculum really sucked when they
were just getting started, or so I hear. Shame to see it go, but I
hope they've improved it since. Python can be a really beautiful
language, albeit nowhere near as elegantly minimal and pure as
Scheme - which IMO made it easier to teach/learn. --toulouse
Clearly MIT disagrees with you. _/
\_ Since 61a is a shallow copy of 6.001 -to the extent that harvey
made us watch a lecture of the MIT class during our lecture- when
will Cal start using python as well?
\_ Makes sense, Sergei and Larry need python and java, not scheme.
\_ Glad to see MIT is keeping up with the times, this is why it is
the NUMBER ONE CS school in the WORLD. "It showed some f'n
adaptability." |