The Land of Lisp
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The Land of Lisp
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Re: The Land of Lisp
#2I've read this book, and what I love about it is that it really brings to mind the programming books of my youth, when nobody would argue that programming should be fun.
It's goofy, has bad jokes, and you learn something.
Having said that, the code style seemed quite idiomatic compared to some of the other Lisp I've seen (although I'm no expert), so I wasn't sure how valuable the lessons were.
Re: The Land of Lisp
#3I've read this book, and what I love about it is that it really brings to mind the programming books of my youth, when nobody would argue that programming should be fun. It's goofy, has bad jokes, and you learn something. Having said that, the code style seemed quite idiomatic compared to some of the other Lisp I've seen (although I'm no expert), so I wasn't sure how valuable the lessons were.
> seemed quite idiomatic
I'm not sure how that would be a bad thing. Did you mean unidiomatic?
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#4This looks great!
Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby really got me started in thinking for myself as a programmer. I'm looking at this book and seeing that if I read it I might fall in love with Lisp...
Re: The Land of Lisp
#5I've read this book, and what I love about it is that it really brings to mind the programming books of my youth, when nobody would argue that programming should be fun. It's goofy, has bad jokes, and you learn something. Having said that, the code style seemed quite idiomatic compared to some of the other Lisp I've seen (although I'm no expert), so I wasn't sure how valuable the lessons were.
I really liked going through Realm of Racket with my 11 year old daughter. It pretty much is the same format. It made me miss the days of typing code from a book and hit run. (Well run never really worked then it was hours of debugging but that taught me so much)
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#6I've read most of it too, but not sure it shows a lot of lisp's strengths. A lot of the programs I read them over and thought that I could do the same thing in significantly less Python code. I'm not sure what should be fixed if anything though.
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#7There's also Realm of Racket https://realmofracket.com/
Which maybe is shorter? I don't recall.
Re: The Land of Lisp
#8I've read this book, and what I love about it is that it really brings to mind the programming books of my youth, when nobody would argue that programming should be fun. It's goofy, has bad jokes, and you learn something. Having said that, the code style seemed quite idiomatic compared to some of the other Lisp I've seen (although I'm no expert), so I wasn't sure how valuable the lessons were.
> seemed quite idiomatic I'm not sure how that would be a bad thing. Did you mean un idiomatic?
Perhaps they meant "idiosyncratic"
Re: The Land of Lisp
#9I've read this book, and what I love about it is that it really brings to mind the programming books of my youth, when nobody would argue that programming should be fun. It's goofy, has bad jokes, and you learn something. Having said that, the code style seemed quite idiomatic compared to some of the other Lisp I've seen (although I'm no expert), so I wasn't sure how valuable the lessons were.
> seemed quite idiomatic I'm not sure how that would be a bad thing. Did you mean un idiomatic?
Maybe "idiomatic" is considered bad because it would mean the lessons are Lisp-specific and you might hope the book teaches you programming in general?
Re: The Land of Lisp
#10I've read this book, and what I love about it is that it really brings to mind the programming books of my youth, when nobody would argue that programming should be fun. It's goofy, has bad jokes, and you learn something. Having said that, the code style seemed quite idiomatic compared to some of the other Lisp I've seen (although I'm no expert), so I wasn't sure how valuable the lessons were.
I really liked going through Realm of Racket with my 11 year old daughter. It pretty much is the same format. It made me miss the days of typing code from a book and hit run. (Well run never really worked then it was hours of debugging but that taught me so much)
Ha yes! Bonus points when the book is for IBM Basic, and you're using a Commodore 64. Argggggg!