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Make it: 3 months full time, plus whatever amount of time is needed to become deeply conversant with all the underlying lambda calculus concepts.

• Hexstream 19y ago
  You're saying nobody can become proficient (not "deeply conversant") in lisp in 3 months because I can't become deeply conversant in lambda calculus in 3 months?! nobody, proficient, lisp. I, deeply conversant, lambda calculus. You're comparing apples and oranges. I learned lisp (pretty deeply, I'd qualify myself as intermediate then and now) in what... 5 or 6 months? And I was alone. And I didn't know emacs. With some coaching and pointers I'm pretty sure I could have made it in 4. Aren't you happy?
  • hernan7 19y ago
    Well, we have 2 data points now. I guess we can agree that it's harder to learn than Python :-) For what it's worth, I think learning Lisp is useful for getting (re)acquainted with lambda calculus if nothing else.
    • tokipin 19y ago
      lisp doesn't strike me as a difficult-to-learn language. it actually seems the easiest of them all, definitely not harder than python to pick up. c++ is at the other end