From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 10 11:55:50 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28AD916A4CE for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 11:55:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.des.no (flood.des.no [217.116.83.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8A0C43D58 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 11:55:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: by smtp.des.no (Pony Express, from userid 666) id AA8D35328; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 20:55:47 +0100 (CET) Received: from dwp.des.no (des.no [80.203.228.37]) by smtp.des.no (Pony Express) with ESMTP id BA2765327; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 20:55:40 +0100 (CET) Received: by dwp.des.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 4CEAB33C9A; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 20:55:40 +0100 (CET) To: Mathew Kanner References: <20040109203839.GK5994@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <20040110193226.GA38657@cnd.mcgill.ca> From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 20:55:40 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20040110193226.GA38657@cnd.mcgill.ca> (Mathew Kanner's message of "Sat, 10 Jan 2004 14:32:26 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090024 (Oort Gnus v0.24) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on flood.des.no X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.1 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_SORBS autolearn=no version=2.60 cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: beastie boot menu, 4th (forth) X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 19:55:50 -0000 Mathew Kanner writes: > I really like: > "Thinking Forth, A Language and Philosophy for Solving > Problems", Leon Brodie (ISBN 0-13-917568-7). > [...] > It should be taught in every high school. No way - Abelson and Sussman's _Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs_, 2nd ed., is second to none. And you get to learn Lisp, too :) DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no