Take a look at Landin's papers and especially ISWIM ("The next 700 programming
languages")
You don't so much want to learn Lisp as to learn "the idea of Lisp"
Cheers,
Alan
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>From: karl ramberg <karlramb...@gmail.com>
>To: Fundamentals of New Computing <fonc@vpri.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 12:00 PM
>Subject: Re: [fonc] Extending object oriented programming in Smalltalk
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>
>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
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>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You wouldn't say that "Lisp 1.5 Programmer's Manual" is outdated would you?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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