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GuestFAUniverse ◴[21 Oct 25 07:10 UTC] No.45653245[source]▶
Where's the "practical" one that site really reflected?

I liked scheme as a learning tool and got highest grades. That doesn't change my impression that most of the sites covering it are mental masturbation. Puzzles, or programs for the sake of scheme itself. Where's the stuff to solve real world problems? (OK, mostly solved by other languages anyway... Still: where is the content that really wants a junior to try it out for routine problems and the senior tonstay with it?)

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1. neilv ◴[21 Oct 25 16:36 UTC] No.45657871[source]▶
Today, that site gives an odd impression, and people will think like you did.

The nice thing about the Scheme community's aggressive inability to do practice advocacy is that there's very little noise like you get in employable languages.

For example, if you Google something about Scheme, there won't be a thousand redundant SEO 'tutorials' that were written in bad faith to attract eyeballs, rather than to fill a need and inform. (The closest Scheme comes to noise is when bloggers get a blog post out of trying Scheme, but most of the rest of it tends to be high quality relative to popular languages.)