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Lisp attracts me just because it seems different to me, and my only experience with functional programming is with Haskell, so trying a loosly typed FP language
by alcuadrado 16y ago
Lisp attracts me just because it seems different to me, and my only experience with functional programming is with Haskell, so trying a loosly typed FP language seems cool. Particularly, I have seen Scheme used in the PL community and some books about that; and Clojure seems to have been gaining popularity lastly, mostly because of it's concurrences features.
I know learning another language of a paradigm I already know is more or less usless, and although you can put Java and Smalltalk in that category, Java has an enormous community, full of different projects, libraries, frameworks, and more, which IMO would teach me a lot. And smalltalk, just for fun :)
About using a language to achieve mastery, I totally agree.
- frobozz 16y agoI've just reread your original post, and now I understand what you mean by "doubting". When I first read it, I thought you were discounting it because it was so different, now I see that it is one of your options.
- alcuadrado 16y agoSure it is, after reading a little about it in the book The computational beauty of nature ( http://bit.ly/fEJ8Cn http://bit.ly/fEJ8Cn ), I've been quite attracted by it, and Scheme and Clojure are the dialects which seem more promissing to me.