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I see you as fortunate. I battled for years with frustration and loss of passion for coding until I ran into LISP/Scheme/Racket. I like how you put it that it "
by tartoran 6y ago
I see you as fortunate. I battled for years with frustration and loss of passion for coding until I ran into LISP/Scheme/Racket. I like how you put it that it "locked into my brain like it had always been there", I felt the same when I finally got to it. I also discovered this accidentally but much later in my career and only after I started lurking on HN few years ago. I am learning and toying frequently and am very excited again. To give you an example, I'm on vacation with my family and took with a me a book in logic programming in scheme which introduces the logic programming concepts, solves a few problems using the learned techniques then it goes on to to implement minikanren in less than 300 lines of code. The whole book is a mere 50 pages. The knowledge and understanding blow my mind.
- unrequited 6y agoWhat would be your advice to someone who's going through that frustration? I would love to get in touch to talk more about this. Thanks.
- tartoran 6y agoIt really depends on what your current situation is. Sometimes a break or distancing solves the problem. Other times it simply is trying something else, job, language, hobby. Make changes until something clicks. It sounds cliche, each person has a different journey but journeys do have some common patterns. Not sure what your frustrations stem from but I could get in touch and talk more about this.
- unrequited 6y agoThanks, this in insightful. Is there a way I can reach out to you?
- axarydax 6y agoDo you remember which book that was? Sounds interesting.
- vram22 6y agoYes, I would like to know too.
- tartoran 6y agoThe book is indeed http://t3x.org/amk/ http://t3x.org/amk/ I ordered a paperback at: https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/nils-m-holm/logic-programming- https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/nils-m-holm/logic-programmin... in-scheme/paperback/product-1z82nmng.html?page=1&pageSize=4 It was absolutely worth it.
- vram22 6y agoThanks.
- minikomi 6y agoSounds like the reasoned schemer!
- agumonkey 6y agoThe whole series is very high grade. I don't appreciate the dialogue format all the time (too fine grained and a bit distracting after the first book). But high density of knowledge here.
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