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I've been watching these to get a grasp of lisp, and think they're great - not least because of the amazingly cool retro-look and haircuts of the audience.
by mixmax 18y ago
I've been watching these to get a grasp of lisp, and think they're great - not least because of the amazingly cool retro-look and haircuts of the audience.
- dfox 18y agoThese videos and book are certainly way to get some grasp at LISP, but not especially good way, because what is presented as LISP there is Scheme and it is presented in way that I would call too theoretic and oriented towards pedagogical purposes. And intention of SICP is to teach basics of CS, not LISP or Scheme, Scheme is used only as programming language serving this purpose. And for this purpose it is one of best materials that I've seen. But because of this programming style presented here is significantly different from what is useful for practical purposes. So it will help you as programmer in general, but not as LISP programmer. If you want to learn Common Lisp and especially to use it effectively I would recommend CL-oriented book, for example Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel. But still I'm recommending SICP (at least watch the videos) to anyone who indends to be real programmer.
- pavelludiq 18y agoThese videos made me a better python programmer. I wrote a small game in python in a lisp inspired style, and thought it was too lispy and so i tried to rewrite it in scheme, just for comparison. I don't know scheme that much, and because of that, i failed.