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"Learning Lisp is an uphill battle. Even though in Computer Science terms Lisp is an ancient language, few people to date figured out how to teach it well enoug

"Learning Lisp is an uphill battle. Even though in Computer Science terms Lisp is an ancient language, few people to date figured out how to teach it well enough to make it accessible. Despite great efforts by many Lisp advocates, learning Lisp today is still hard." I agree. I'm going from newb to lisper, and it hurts.

brlewis 19y ago
Learning Lisp is hard up front but makes things easy later. Last week we got a digital photo frame to see how well it worked with ourdoings.com and found that, though it worked, 4 new RSS feeds would be a big win. I implemented them in about 20 minutes in Scheme. Added few lines to the codebase. In other languages I would have been tempted to cut/paste. For more on the photo frame and RSS feeds, see http://ourdoings.com/2008-03-01 http://ourdoings.com/2008-03-01