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Indeed - he mentions in the article that he set himself a goal to convert 10 programmers into Lispers. Sounds like he probably has that many just in this threa
by jgw 14y ago
Indeed - he mentions in the article that he set himself a goal to convert 10 programmers into Lispers. Sounds like he probably has that many just in this thread! Kudos, sir!
- samstokes 14y agoHe didn't make me a Lisper (I'm more a Haskell fan these days), but reading Slava's Lisp articles years ago was a significant part of what set me on my current career path. He helped get me into functional programming, which got me a contract job [1], which is how I met one of my current co-founders. [1] http://martin.kleppmann.com/2009/09/18/the-python-paradox-is-now-the-scala-paradox.html http://martin.kleppmann.com/2009/09/18/the-python-paradox-is...