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Would you recommend I start playing around with Lisp before I do clojure?

• grzm 10y ago
  There's really no need. Most of the Clojure material out there doesn't assume or require Lisp knowledge. Unless you're interested in specifically learning Lisp, of course.
• kls 10y ago
  either or, Clojure has more of a focus on functional programming and immutability than some other lisp implementations but honestly they don't really get in the way and most lisp lean that way anyways. Personally I would say stick to Clojure or CL as there is a wealth of information and libs available for those two. Others will differ but once you know one it's a matter of style and conventions to adopt a different implementation (until you get under the hood)
• straws 10y ago
  I've found http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/ http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/ to be the best resource to drill the "code as data" mindset necessary for Lisp programming. And I would recommend going through as many exercises in http://sarabander.github.io/sicp/ http://sarabander.github.io/sicp/ as possible using the Racket IDE: https://docs.racket-lang.org/sicp-manual/index.html https://docs.racket-lang.org/sicp-manual/index.html