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As someone who has never touched Lisp, why is thinking in Lisp good?

• deleted 11y ago
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• farresito 11y ago
  Functional programming/paradigm. It's a pretty nice language to learn it (my intention was to learn Clojure, but I read this book first so that I had an small base).
  • sampo 11y ago
    But today, one can learn functional programming also with other languages than Lisp.
    • cgag 11y ago
      The book isn't really about lisp, it's about thinking in terms of higher order functions and recursion, which apply in any functional language.
      • hga 11y ago
        The same people have also written The Little MLer (http://www.amazon.com/The-Little-MLer-Matthias-Felleisen/dp/026256114X http://www.amazon.com/The-Little-MLer-Matthias-Felleisen/dp/...).
        • rdc12 11y ago
          Which is also brilliant, but is more about thinking in terms of types (more advanced type systems, then C/C++/Java etc). Should make a good warm up for learning the likes of OCaml and Haskell
          • peteretep 11y ago
            Almost all the exercises can be done in Haskell with a small amount of syntactic adjustment
    • joshuapants 11y ago
      The cool thing about learning in Lisp (or Scheme) is that the language doesn't really get in the way. It's less about learning the syntax of a language and more about focusing on the algorithms/concepts.
• surganov 11y ago
  For instance, it's a great manifestation of lambda calculus.