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Off topic, but I have some free time over the next year and a half and thought a fun intellectual project would be to work through the Lisp books (SICP, AIP, Th
by exdsq 5y ago
Off topic, but I have some free time over the next year and a half and thought a fun intellectual project would be to work through the Lisp books (SICP, AIP, Theory of Metaobject Protocols, Let over Lambda, etc...).
Would this actually be worth it if the metrics are intellectual curiosity and general engineering skill improvements with a focus on the long-term?
Edit: If it's not worth it, what would be a similarly interesting alternative?
- evanmoran 5y agoI would say do one of these but not all. Then find something in school or work that is hard and worth learning and go deep in that area for a time. A year and a half is a long time so keep reevaluating :)
- astrange 5y agoOne of them would be good, but you wouldn't learn much from two I think. Lisp isn't that semantically interesting anyway, it just has the most persistent/pretentious advocates.
- Abhinav2000 5y agoA bit late to the party. I recommend SICP, On Lisp & Art of Metaobject Protocol. The last you can skip to some degree because its quite advanced so unless you want to stay in the Lisp world, not as useful IMO (but lovely from an intellectual perspective, its a masterpiece). SICP definitely IMO. On Lisp is by Paul Graham and pretty good too, but again its kinda more Lisp focused. Actually try PAIP by Norvig, I heard that is really good and it should be more useful for non lispers (even though its a lisp based book, it teaches lots of good programming concepts)