Scheme is Love

I have a question. When you look at the Scheme source, after a couple of weeks of working on some other project, do you still understand it? The same applies to the new anonymous delegates...

C# was a huge step on cleaning up C++. Removing everything that was confusing, keeping what was good and adding a few good things from other languages. Aren't you guys going the other way around again?

Antao

What text did you use to dive into Scheme to really grok the fullness? Did you go with SICP?

Antao,

I've gone back and looked at Scheme source I've written say six months ago and it still makes sense. That stated, I'm not a huge define-syntax abuser, so it's really not that different from looking at source in any other language.

As for the evolution of C#, I'm pretty happy with the direction its headed. On the anonymous delegate front, I think they're a pure win, as the ability to define a program in a single block statement makes things WAY more readable IMO. If you've ever tried to spelunk event-handler-heavy or asyncCallback-heavy C# 1.x code, you've seen the downside of requiring distinct/named method definitions.

To tell you the truth, this was the first time I saw Scheme. It was a bit of a shock when I saw the if syntax and the lambda thing... ;-)

About the delegates, I understand that you want to save steps to be more productive but, don't those steps force the programmer to organize its code? I think I'll avoid the anonymous delegates just like I avoid the ? : operator... ;-)

Antao