{ End Bracket }: Scheme Is Love -- MSDN Magazine, October 2005
If you have ever experienced Don Box live and in person you'll know what I mean when I say you could very well be in for a real treat. For example, in this picture he has taken a kinda-sorta rendition of "It's the end of the world as we know it" from R.E.M. and given it a whole new meaning, with .NET as its foundation.
I mention this only because of the title he chose for this piece: Scheme is Love. From Don Box, expect nothing else (and thats a good thing!)
This article starts off:
For the past few years, it has become fashionable to embrace a dynamic language such as Perl, PHP, Python, or Ruby. While I'll admit to having a short but pleasurable tryst with Ruby, I believe I have found true love in the dialect of Lisp called Scheme.
He then continues:
In writing Scheme programs, I've learned a lot about coding, design, architecture, and aesthetics. On this front, Eric S. Raymond got it right in his essay, "How to Become a Hacker":Lisp is worth learning for a different reason—the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it. That experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot.
In follow-up he recently posted "More on Scheme" to his blog.
Definitely a must read!
Enjoy!
