Subject: RE: [hackers-il] Re: OS development

From: Omer Musaev <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 18:07:53 +0200

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> From: Chen Shapira 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 3:20 PM
> To: [email-masked]'
> Subject: RE: [hackers-il] Re: OS development
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> > I would not go into all that trouble to learn Scheme just 
> in order to
> > understand what SchemeOS was all about. Learning Scheme, 
> especially by
> > means of the "Structure and Interpretation of Computer 
> Programs" book,
> > gives one many useful techniques and insights about 
> > programming. However,
> > I don't think it well help you with the OS essay, per ce.
> 
> Nor will it help you much with Scheme.
> This book is a great "introduction to CS" book, but its 
> scheme content could
> be shortened to a smaller book, and leave room for important 
> concepts they
> left out (continuations, letrec).

There are some introductory materials on the web:

Meir Goldberg's pages on Scheme:

Scheme:
http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~gmayer/courses/compiler-construction/help/index.htm
l
http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~gmayer/interests-programming-languages/scheme/schem
e-programming-language.html
http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~gmayer/interests-programming-languages/scheme/index
.html

The never-finished Scheme-Book http://www.iglu.org.il:8080/Zen/SchemeBook

> 
> Scheme is a small language, SICP is a large book (and 
> includes instructions
> on writing scheme compilers).
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