Which lisp for a (lisp) novice?
- From: Toni <devegades@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 22:09:07 +0200
I'd like to learn lisp but I'm confused with the many variants I'm finding.
What would you recommend for an experienced programmer in other languages (mainly C and perl), wanting to learn lisp?
Should be a well documented lisp and working in Mac OS and main UNIXes (Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, ...)
I've found and enjoyed the "Practical Common Lisp" book, mainly because it starts with realistic examples, not the car/cdr/lists I had found in the past that lead me to the wrong conclusion that lisp was "only" good at processing abstract lists and could do nothing useful.
A bit more reading in this ng seems to suggest that Common Lisp is not a good choice, so I'd like to have some more opinions before spending to much time learning the wrong stuff.
What do you think? Ideas and criticisms welcome.
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Toni
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