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Really good Guile Scheme crash course (youtu.be)

submitted 4 days ago by paequ2@lemmy.today to c/programming@programming.dev

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Cool even if you're not interested in learning Scheme. It has some neat features.

Code as data? 😵‍💫

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[–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you make a bucket list of features e.g. present in Python and look whether Scheme or at least some Scheme implementations have them since a long time, you might be surprised.

Garbage cellection? Check.

Unicode-cleanness? Check.

Modular imports? Check.

Exceptions and primitives that can build generators? Check.

Pattern Matching? Check.

An interactive Read-Eval-Print-Loop? Check.

Functional if, case, and loops / list comprehendions? Check.

Lambda functions and closures? Check.

Hash tables, Maps, vectors? Check.

Complex numbers? Check.

Debuggers? Check.

Calling into C code? Check.

A numeric tower with rational numbers ? Check.

JIT compilation? Check.

and many more....

[–] pewpew@feddit.it 1 points 1 day ago

I'll just stick to C