19 engineers on Hacker News describe using Scheme first-hand: 5 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“I view it as setting me up with a strong foundation that colleagues of mine who learned in a more "popular" language lack.”
endorse · personal · 0.25 yr · bunderbunder · 2024-06-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I too, learned Scheme first and liked it cos it was simpler/purer etc. than Common Lisp.”
endorse · personal · marksmillibend · 2020-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Having done the intro course in Scheme, I'd say it helped me understand functional programming far more than I ever could have with Python”
endorse · personal · jedberg · 2017-04-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“That's what my intro CS course did with Scheme, and it was perfectly natural and effective.”
endorse · personal · tikhonj · 2011-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've taught introductory computer programming in Scheme and Pascal... Something about Scheme made the distinction... much easier to understand.”
endorse · personal · cwilbur · 2011-10-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I absolutely hated it at that time, so I skipped it completely. Now I regret it”
regret · personal · eccp · 2011-08-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“copying the examples from it into Python and then Scheme (introduced to me by that same guy) and Common Lisp.”
neutral · personal · 0db532a0 · 2019-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“A couple years ago, I implemented the entire federal form 1040 and some schedules as Scheme code, as an experiment”
neutral · personal · 2 yr · neilv · 2019-05-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The first iteration was written in Scheme, today, it runs on top of Pony.”
neutral · personal · shakna · 2016-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The subset of Scheme that we use in Guix is mostly functional.”
neutral · personal · rekado · 2016-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the Bootstrap curricula in particular, where we use both Scheme and Pyret”
neutral · production · jpolitz · 2016-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have to learn Scheme(my second language) at the university.”
neutral · personal · pmelendez · 2015-07-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“my production skill set includes php, c, c++, python, ruby, erlang, scheme, javascript, scala”
neutral · production · Ixiaus · 2014-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Spending all night figuring out how to write a Scheme compiler for lego robots”
neutral · personal · kasey_junk · 2014-07-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm glad we switched to something new (scheme), I was getting tired of it.”
neutral · personal · AYBABTME · 2013-03-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“then Pascal/C/Scheme/Lisp in college”
neutral · personal · ww520 · 2012-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have an outstanding code editor and development environments for Lisp, Scheme, Python, J, F# and JavaScript.”
neutral · personal · taylodl · 2012-11-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been a Lisp weenie for a long time now (Scheme, Common Lisp, recently Clojure both at work and in hobby projects).”
neutral · personal · strlen · 2010-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Having learned C, Java, SQL, Common Lisp, and Scheme on my own”
neutral · personal · masterponomo · 2010-08-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?