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Re:If you want to learn Lisp, be ready to meet the scowling ... by palish on Wednesday June 20, 2007 @12:15PM (#29569)
Great info, great detail. Thanks so much for your time. I've never even considered looping through recursion. The construct-a-new-world vs modify-the-current-world situation was exactly the problem I was thinking of. And you followed it up with a paper, if I wanted to learn more. It's hard to emphasize how perfect stuff like this is for a newcomer to Lisp. There should be more snippets like this. You should write a tutorial somewhere.
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Re:If you want to learn Lisp, be ready to meet the scowling ... by henning on Wednesday June 20, 2007 @05:35PM (#29666)
Scheme has kind of a different culture from Common Lisp. Most of the material is oriented towards students in order to teach the timeless stuff in computer science.

I learned C before I learned any functional languages and I regret it to this day. It took me _years_ to undo the damage. I really dug myself into a hole, too, by learning all about pointers and low-level stuff like that before I ever knew what Python, Ruby, etc. were.

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Re:If you want to learn Lisp, be ready to meet the scowling ... by euccastro on Wednesday June 20, 2007 @10:21PM (#29713)
Why, thanks! I myself reinforced some concepts while writing it, since I have more of a Python background. I like the idea of writing a tutorial about this, but I'd rather experiment more first.
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