Archive for September, 2009

How to Balance Parentheses in Lisp or Scheme

One thing that was very interesting in the classic Structure and Interpretation of Computer Program lectures by Jay Sussman and Hal Abelson was the effortlessness that Mr. Sussman was able to balance parentheses while writing code on a chalk board. One of the biggest complaints from new Lisp or Scheme programmers is the difficulty of [...]

September 10, 2009   Posted in: Programming  One Comment