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It's one thing if mankind is hunted to extinction by ChatGPT, but I really do object to being executed by Bing.

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From: (Anonymous)

Tried learning some Lisp for an hour.

You put everything in brackets. Roughly, the first thing in your brackets says what you're going to do. The second thing in your brackets says what you're going to do it to. You can put brackets in brackets, and put things in THOSE brackets. You can use newlines and indentation so that it's easier to see which brackets are in which brackets.

(pprint "hello world")

(pprint (string-upcase "hello world"))

etc.

Apparently people joke that LISP means "Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses".

When I started the common lisp (clisp) interpreter, I was surprised to get a huge ascii pic saying "CLISP" with a menorah. I searched it; the authors have an faq where they say they're not Jewish, but are really into Judaism. I like those kinds of odd quirks in older programming stuff.

So there we go. im now a lisp developer. Before I learn the builtins, is this one of the languages that pays?

From: (Anonymous)

Stackoverflow dev survey says yes. 😎 Holiday island here I come!

From: (Anonymous)

I learned Scheme as a part of my first CS course. Was a pretty cool way to introduce how the type of language you choose influences how you write programs.

Usually I don't see pure Lisp these days, just dialects. My team used to do some of our unit tests in Clojure before some of the founding members left and we realized having tests that only I knew how to maintain was a bad idea.

From: (Anonymous)

I've seen the Clojure mentioned around but never done anything with it. :) I figured I'd start off with ye olden common Lisp and then look into dialects; have always been glad I went from C to python rather than vice versa.