ezyang’s blog

the arc of software bends towards understanding

The creation of a statically-typed functional programmer

The bug bit me in early 2009, during MIT’s independent activities period; really, it was two bugs. The first was 6.184, the re-animated introductory computer science class taught in Scheme—for obvious reasons. But I don’t think that was sufficient: I seemed to recall thinking Scheme was interesting but not a language I actually wanted to […]

  • March 2, 2011