I wish you could have seen Interlisp-D running on a Dorado.
-David

-David
On Aug 17, 2011, at 12:00 PM, karl ramberg wrote:

> Hi,
> Just reading a Lisp book my self. 
> Lisp seems to be very pure at the bottom level.
> The nesting in parentheses are hard to read and comprehend / debug.
> Things get not so pretty when all sorts of DSL are made to make it more 
> powerful. 
> The REPL give it a kind of wing clipped aura; there is more to computing than 
> text io
> 
> Karl
> 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 8:00 PM, DeNigris Sean <s...@clipperadams.com> wrote:
> Alan,
> 
> While we're on the subject, you finally got to me and I started learning 
> LISP, but I'm finding an entire world, rather than a cohesive language or 
> philosophy (Scheme - which itself has many variants, Common LISP, etc). What 
> would you recommend to "get it" in the way that changes your thinking? What 
> should I be reading, downloading, coding, etc.
> 
> Thanks.
> Sean DeNigris
>> You wouldn't say that "Lisp 1.5 Programmer's Manual" is outdated would you?  
>> :-)
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