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kevinpet on Dec 5, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Harvard 1869 entrance exam

The point of learning Scheme is that you can learn Scheme the language in five minutes and move on the actual topic of the course, which is about how a program gets executed.

baby on Dec 5, 2011 [–]

I wish it was like that in my university and I didn't spent a semester learning an language I will never ever use.

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