Did you know that Guy Steele wrote a C book? Now I have one.

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> One of the conclusions that we reached was that the "object" need not be a primitive notion in a programming language; one can build objects and their behaviour from little more than assignable value cells and good old lambda expressions. — #GuySteele on the design of #Scheme in #DougHoyte's #LetOverLambda has me thinking #LambdaTheBase as a helpful metaphor, something to demystify all the compact forms that can be overwhelming for the occasional would-be progammer.
https://letoverlambda.com/index.cl/guest/chap2.html

I think we need a #MinimalistProgram for everything. I've been wondering what the equivalent of #CKOgden's #BasicEnglish might be for #Racket or #Scheme. The #FossAndCrafts Scheme tutorial mentioned #LambdaTheUltimate and reminded me of #DougHoyte's #LetOverLambda book where he quote #GuySteele on primitives. I have Laozi in mind and want to think of #LambdaTheBase or #BasicLambda... With just lambda and an approach like #TheSchemersGuide learning could be in a very minimalist situation.

The Commercial High School 商業高校 students study Java in place of Cobolプログラミング検定 now. So Paul Graham and Guy Steele came to mind: "We were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp."" --- Guy Steele quoted by Paul Graham. I'd love to see how to work with a classroom, DrRacket, _The Schemer's Guide_, and The Graded Direct Method.
http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html
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