I'm not sure how to ask this, so I want to preface this by saying I'm not try start a language war. This is a question I had this weekend, and wanted to ask
as part of my "trying to understand the Lisp mentality."
Lately I've been trying to play with various (free) Lisp implementations just to get the feel of the overall language. I've used clisp, scsh, MIT Scheme, and I've even tinkered with Emacs Lisp and Dr. Scheme a little bit. In playing
with these different Lisps, I can see the similarities, and I can see the differences. Now, I'm no where close to being anything but a hobbyist with it so far, but I'm worndering: when one gets to the point that one can program marvelous software with a specific implementation, does one kind of focus on that specific implementation? I mean, do Lisp hackers generally focus on learning one implementation, or is it better to kind of learn them at a paralell pace?
I'm wondering -- and again, this isn't trying to say one is better than the other -- should set MIT Scheme, Emacs Lisp, and such aside until I get better at clisp? Or should I continue working with each one as I have been? What do most Lisp hackers do? Any opinions are welcome. Thanks.
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I love how Google makes it easy for the clueless to reply to 20 year old posts. I wonder about the future of this. Will we have people replying
to 100 year old posts in the 22nd century?
vonunov <vonunov@gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, April 14, 2003 at 12:20:07 PM UTC-5, Andrew Burton wrote:
> ...
I love how Google makes it easy for the clueless to reply to 20 year old posts. I wonder about the future of this.
Will we have people replying
to 100 year old posts in the 22nd century?
On Sun, 19 Feb 2023 19:06:58 -0500
Alan Bawden <al...@csail.mit.edu> wrote:
vonunov <von...@gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, April 14, 2003 at 12:20:07 PM UTC-5, Andrew Burton wrote:
...
I love how Google makes it easy for the clueless to reply to 20 year old posts. I wonder about the future of this.Replying to very old posts can be cool if there is some substance in the reply which on this occasion there wasn't.
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