Learn Lisp the Hard Way

Re:Learn Lisp the Hard Way by PuercoPop on Thursday July 10, 2014 @06:05PM (#8017640)

Regarding the tone I concede it is a little over the top, but considering the author works for D-Wave[1] building the future of (Quantum) Computing I think it is not without merit.

It may be better to leave the intro part for the end as it may alienate programmers that have preconceived notions about lisp based on hearsay and not actual experience (i.e. it's enlightening, it's old, full of cruft, hard to read, it's functional, Clojure is the future of lisp).

It is also very much a WIP that the author didn't submit so keep that in mind.

I hope he gets to writing the chapter on Quantum computing: http://learnlispthehardway.org/book/3-14-0-quantum-computing...

[1]: http://www.dwavesys.com/

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Re:Learn Lisp the Hard Way by thephoeron on Thursday July 10, 2014 @09:03PM (#8018354)

It's worth noting that I don't work for D-Wave. Quantum Computing is an interest of mine, so naturally I signed up for their developer program when they launched it a couple years back (which they shut down entirely earlier this year).

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Re:Learn Lisp the Hard Way by PuercoPop on Friday July 11, 2014 @02:12AM (#8019063)

Sorry, my mistake. Don't know where I got the idea that I had seen D-wave on your gh profile.

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Re:Learn Lisp the Hard Way by thephoeron on Friday July 11, 2014 @05:58AM (#8019436)

Oh, yeah that was just the group for members of their developer program. It's gone now though.

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Re:Learn Lisp the Hard Way by semiel on Thursday July 10, 2014 @06:15PM (#8017703)

The author working for D-Wave is a very illuminating fact, given the high probability that D-Wave's products are pseudoscience.

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