It's 2023, so of course I'm learning Common Lisp

Re:It's 2023, so of course I'm learning Common Lisp by mathisfun123 on Thursday July 27, 2023 @01:25AM (#36889269)

I'm sorry but are you really going to pretend like car and cdr are not core to lisp?

>list[0] and list[-1]

That is not car and cdr; closer would be list[0] and list[1:] if lists were cons in python.

>Mathematica expressions are in many respects like LISP lists. In Mathematica, however, expressions are the lowest-level objects accessible to the user. LISP allows you to go below lists, and access the binary trees from which they are built

This is a quote from 1986. I wonder if the language has changed much since then

https://reference.wolfram.com/language/tutorial/Expressions....

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Re:It's 2023, so of course I'm learning Common Lisp by behnamoh on Thursday July 27, 2023 @01:37AM (#36889339)

Read PG's "Roots of Lisp" and you'll understand what I mean.

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Re:It's 2023, so of course I'm learning Common Lisp by mathisfun123 on Thursday July 27, 2023 @01:40AM (#36889363)

I believe that is an argument from authority (if I remember correctly).

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