Re: [OFFTOPIC, but possibly amusing] [was: peasant revolt against DrScheme!]

[Shriram Krishnamurthi <sk@cs.brown.edu>]

Matthias Felleisen wrote:

> Jerry is also wrong about us not teaching `useful' things with
> Scheme. Pretty soon, you will see extensions of HtDP that show how a fourth
> week student can create Web trees and maintain Web sites with Scheme. Try
> this in Perl or C. Pretty soon we will show how kids can write CGI
> scripts after 8 weeks. 

Jerzy is right.  His point was not about the teaching but about the
showing.  It's not enough that you and I do this -- we need to get the 
first year student itching to write a CGI script to also do this.  But 
that is exactly why we're putting together HtUS (How to Use Scheme).

In a nutshell.

Shriram