Shriram Krishnamurthi  <shriram@cs.rice.edu> wrote:
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| "Christoph Probst" <christoph.probst@ngi.de> writes:
| > ...the programming language Scheme...  Why do you use it?    
| 
| I use it to...  [really great list! (omitted)]
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I also use it for all kinds of little utility & one-off programs:
 
- Fetch stock quotes from Web pages and print *concise* text-only summaries
- Do miscellaneous financial calculations (e.g., stock option valuations)
- Periodically check a few Web pages for recent updates 
- Compute ketogenic ratio from protein/carb/fat labels on foods
- Dump formatted versions of data from some GUI programs (e.g., calendar)
- Maintain/search a small people/address/phone/mail database
- Periodically grovel through SYSLOG looking for "anomalies"
- Rummage through archived mail & news 
- Filter (and/or autorespond to) incoming mail

In short, things a lot of other people would use Perl for, except I can't
seem to write Perl without a manual glued to the other hand, and I certainly
can't *read* anything I've written in Perl even just a week later, much less
six months or a year later -- but I never seem to have any trouble picking up
years-old Scheme code and reading it straight off.

For me, Scheme is easy to think in, easy to write, and easy to read later.
[But as always, YMMV...]


-Rob

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