It will be much easier if you learn modern Greek first. Keep in mind that it's very hard, even for native Greek speakers. Be prepared to spend a few years doing that ;)
I think this is just the nature of paid work, though. Academics are generally in love with their topic, and very much not in love with the kind of admin busywork that they have to spend much of their working hours doing.
MIT Scheme (and ScmUtils) are unfortunately not getting enough maintainence, but they still work with a little effort. Probably better on Linux than any other environment. If you have a Mac you may try this:
Ah, nice, I'll try that. SICM in particular relies on numerical routines and things for scientific computing that this perhaps doesn't cover. We'll see. Thanks!
This just came up on a separate recent HN thread... the fictional hypercomputer:
"I Don't Know, Timmy, Being God Is a Big Responsibility" by qntm:
https://qntm.org/responsibility
The Array Cast https://www.arraycast.com/. This is a podcast on array languages (which more or less means APL-like, for the purposes of the podcast). Even if you don't particularly care about these languages they discuss algorithms and things from an abstract enough perspective that is helpful and illuminating.
