My Road to Lisp (2007)

Posted by AlexeyBrin on Sunday August 28, 2022 @08:02AM
from the peter.michaux.ca dept.

http://peter.michaux.ca/articles/my-road-to-lisp

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Re:My Road to Lisp (2007) by _benj on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @10:41PM (#32657730)

I’m looking forward to picking up Scheme (currently learning Tcl) and this provides some good ideas/resources to go about it!

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Re:My Road to Lisp (2007) by betwixthewires on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @01:28AM (#32658712)

I don't have quite the experience with programming languages this guy has, but I've found myself enthralled with functional programming as well. Lisp is really cool, I'm really interested in Scheme in particular, and beyond that Haskell, Erlang and R (I like math). I don't know where this is taking me but it feels exciting.

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Re:My Road to Lisp (2007) by hugginn on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @04:44AM (#32659847)

I feel the same. If you want to dig even deeper, I find the array languages extremely fascinating. Look at APL for instance. I'm really excited about it coming to android, as it's terse enough to work well on phones, especially since phones can handle any arbitrary keyboard layout.

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Re:My Road to Lisp (2007) by aidenn0 on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @01:22AM (#32658674)

Strangely enough the dates of the first 5 languages are nearly the same, but I'm a different age.

I got exposed to lisp 8 years earlier than the author though, as I took an AI class in high-school.

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Re:My Road to Lisp (2007) by waynesonfire on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @07:47PM (#32656625)

... what happened after 2008?

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Re:My Road to Lisp (2007) by DonaldFisk on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @08:51PM (#32657065)

He wrote this: https://github.com/petermichaux/bootstrap-scheme/blob/v0.9/s...

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