Programming Languages YET AGAIN (was Re: How to add reports into Gnucash)

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 04:44:12PM -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
> At Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:58:12 -0700 (PDT) "David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Don--
> > 
> > Thank you for this information. If I *really* wanted to learn how to program, I probably would have been a Comp Sci major in college. As it is, what I *really* want is to have a report that allows me to see monthly cash flow for a series of months. Unfortunately, I will have to hope that someone else with more ability, time, and determination will work out how to realize this report for me.
> 
> Scheme is a LISP variant.  Even for CS Majors / Grad Students LISP can
> be a 'tough' language.  One either 'gets it' or one does not: "There
> are 10 kinds of people: Lispers and everyone else" :-) (There are two
> computer programmer jokes there.)

What makes Lisp tough is trying to learn it with a mindset derived from 
completely different kinds of languages.  Kind of like trying to learn 
Japanese while insisting on using English grammar on it.

-- hendrik