http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/article/119/deceptively-simple Science and Philosophy Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:21:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/article/119/deceptively-simple/comment-page-1#comment-190 Automata via Macros | Wisdom and Wonder Fri, 02 Jan 2009 01:02:02 +0000 http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/article/119/deceptively-simple#comment-190 [...] In a conversation with Aaron Hsu, he once said something to the effect that “Scheme is hard because it is subtle.”, and that sort of rang true with my intuition, but I had a difficult time verbalizing exactly why I thought that to be true. Outwardly Scheme appears to be “simple”, but the more you learn about it and the deeper you dig, you start to see that it is Deceptively Simple. [...] [...] In a conversation with Aaron Hsu, he once said something to the effect that “Scheme is hard because it is subtle.”, and that sort of rang true with my intuition, but I had a difficult time verbalizing exactly why I thought that to be true. Outwardly Scheme appears to be “simple”, but the more you learn about it and the deeper you dig, you start to see that it is Deceptively Simple. [...]

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