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I think you can use whatever to do Lisp. I'd start with something simple like Scheme, and definitely by watching and doing the SICP lecture recordings from now
by dognotdog 6y ago
I think you can use whatever to do Lisp. I'd start with something simple like Scheme, and definitely by watching and doing the SICP lecture recordings from now 34 (!) years ago: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-001-structure-and-interpretation-of-computer-programs-spring-2005/video-lectures/ https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...
Once you think you grok it, you can pick a Lisp that's closest to what other tools and frameworks you're used to. For me, I never actually did anything in Lisp for production use, but learned a lot from playing with various flavors of it.
- da39a3ee 6y ago> I think you can use whatever to do Lisp. I'm not sure about that. You need an editor that automatically matches parens and other paired delimiters and keeps them balanced, like paredit.
- dognotdog 6y agoI did kind of make the assumption that you'd have a code editor that has some form of paren highlighting, at least, though I've never actually found this to be a bigger problem in Lisp than other languages.
- da39a3ee 6y agoIt's not paren highlighting: it's about making it impossible to create unbalanced parens.