From: Mikael Jansson
Subject: Re: Oft-shared (perhaps?) Impressions of a Lisp Newbie
Date: 
Message-ID: <a8649817-67ea-49b0-bd7a-78c7b8cbd34f@m3g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>
On Apr 14, 5:30 am, Griff <·······@gmail.com> wrote:
> [snip]
>
> Start by learning Scheme. If you start with Common Lisp you will just
> end up obsessing over the Common Lisp Object System.
>
> 1) Read _The Scheme Programming Language 3rd edition_. Do as many of
> the problems as you can, skip whatever you don't get. Read it a second
> time, but do all of the problems this time.
> 2) Read _The Little Schemer_.
> 3) By now you will have seen the majority of new concepts that Lisp
> provides.
> 4) Learn Common Lisp.

... and unlearn names like "lst" ...

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Mikael Jansson
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