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I get the feeling it has a lot to do with how much your teacher loves the language. I was introduced to Common Lisp at university, didn't get it at all. At leas
by codr7 6y ago
I get the feeling it has a lot to do with how much your teacher loves the language. I was introduced to Common Lisp at university, didn't get it at all. At least Prolog could do cool tricks. Took me several years of Graham yabbering about it to make the effort, and to my surprise it was all that and more. I realize now that my teacher didn't have enough experience to really understand what was great about Lisp. I have since learned Smalltalk as well, and admire many aspects of it; but with the wrong teacher it would have failed just as epically.
- pjmlp 6y agoThis is how learning OCaml and having access to Native Oberon and Smalltalk/V did to me. It opened my mind to an alternative universe of safe systems programing and computing models. This kind of stuff is a bit like explaining monads I guess, it only groks if one goes through the experience themselves and it always hard to convince others just with words.