And when you write in Java or Python you may remember the first contacts you had, thanks to lambdatalk, with functions, booleans, lists, recursion and other joys of the art of coding, and that should help you to better digest these powerful languages.
To give the desire to go further on bases as simple as possible, it was the goal of this paper. It's up to you to judge if it has been achieved.
... So I concocted another approach, starting from a foundation as small as possible and defining a small set of bricks with which to build the data and control structures common to all languages, which will always serve as a guide in their learning. You will forget lambdatalk, the language that accompanies me in this journey, but you will keep in mind the essential concepts that underlie the act of coding. At least I hope so.
And when you write in Java or Python you may remember the first contacts you had, thanks to lambdatalk, with functions, booleans, lists, recursion and other joys of the art of coding, and that should help you to better digest these powerful languages.
To give the desire to go further on bases as simple as possible, it was the goal of this paper. It's up to you to judge if it has been achieved.