tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8715945003316205464.post9011490653108008961..comments2010-10-15T11:45:29.792-04:00Douglas Cuthbertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15559723799482915113noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8715945003316205464.post-24471888769433565452010-10-15T11:45:29.792-04:002010-10-15T11:45:29.792-04:00Argh! I was expecting you to talk about Erlang and you warped over to scheme before saying anything.<br /><br />People learn scheme in school and promptly forget it afterwards. Scheme is a great language for learning functional programming but I don&#39;t think anyone actually uses scheme in real life. (Well, maybe a few people, but not many.) If you are interested in scheme you may want to checkout clojure. It is lisp/scheme like, runs on the jvm, and seems to have a pretty active community. (There are lots of libraries being developed.)<br /><br />My first exposure to scheme was when I read &quot;Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs&quot; about 20 years ago. Great book, nice language.baldmountainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12625700793776474607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8715945003316205464.post-9370315564878931452010-09-29T16:47:04.761-04:002010-09-29T16:47:04.761-04:00Douglas,<br /><br />Gawk (the Gnu version of awk) is available for windows at<br />http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gawk.htm<br /><br />(from your comment on http://gregable.com/2010/09/why-you-should-know-just-little-awk.html)jchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01261021835706555995noreply@blogger.com