3 Apr
1999
3 Apr
'99
9:42 p.m.
I've finally gotten around to reading a LISP book that I had bought months
before, and I can see why people refer to LISP as a religious experience
(I've seen that said at least twice). It's really a wonderful language. I
wonder how it is worse than BASIC or Perl. Also, although I didn't really
take the time to really understand smalltalk (Squeak is slow and
unstable), I can see the beginnings of smalltalk in LISP. Wow. This thing
really is pretty amazing. This should be taught in every computer
programming course, along with PAL-8, C, and Perl. I am now certain that
if a language is hard to learn (C++ comes to mind), there's something
wrong with it :)
--Max Eskin (max82(a)surfree.com)