26 Oct
2011
26 Oct
'11
4:41 p.m.
On 26/10/11 6:17 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
On 26 October 2011 13:40, Toby Thain<toby at
telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
That can't be true! Lisp's best-kept secret is that it is very simple to
get into. Pick up any introductory Lisp or Scheme book (e.g. Programming
in Scheme by Eisenberg and Abelson,
http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Scheme-Michael-Eisenberg/dp/0894261150 )
or How to Design Programs (online at
http://htdp.org/2003-09-26/ )
and you will soon prove this to yourself!
--Toby
On 26/10/11 3:36 AM, SPC wrote:
Nice article - thanks for that!
The more I read about Lisp, the more I want to understand... but I
suspect I am too old&
Very interesting comment, Rich (and Toby, by the way).
Hi Sergio
Last night I came across (via Quora*) a piece by Paul Graham that tries to
put McCarthy's early Lisp work into perspective.
http://www.paulgraham.com/rootsoflisp.html
(The article itself is linked here as a PostScript file.)
I haven't read it all yet. even in my youth I never got much past BASIC.
The only Lisp I've been able to follow code in is Dylan, and Dylan
seems to be rather moribund... :?(