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You can learn lisp in half an hour. The hard part of emacs isn’t “lisp” it’s learning the libraries, just like it is in any other ecosystem. This difficulty wou
by fiddlerwoaroof 4y ago
You can learn lisp in half an hour. The hard part of emacs isn’t “lisp” it’s learning the libraries, just like it is in any other ecosystem. This difficulty would by present if everything was JS.
- shepherdjerred 4y agoYou really think that the bottom 50% of programmers could learn lisp in 30 minutes?
- fiddlerwoaroof 4y agoLisp isn’t any harder to learn than JavaScript or Python.
- shepherdjerred 4y agoHere's my response to a similar comment in this thread > I speak from my experience in college (~3-4 years ago) where, every year, 60% of the class dropped out of an AI class taught in common lisp because they couldn't understand it: https://catalog.harding.edu/preview_course_nopop.php?catoid=49&coid=79532 https://catalog.harding.edu/preview_course_nopop.php?catoid=...