Comments on: Programming Culture

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:25:45 +0000

I totally relate to your feeling, had exactly the same story i must say.

And i was just gonna post something along the lines of what Curran said. Clojure is a great way to lisp if you plan to learn today. Also because it forces you on a functionnal style (immutable vars) where in CL or Scheme that is left to your concern, it’s really easier, paradoxally.

The problem is , there is not much ressources about learning clojure yet since it’s so young, but a few books and tutorials are in the writings

The big problem of Lisps before Clojure, has been good library bindings

By: Curran

Curran — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:43:06 +0000

I had a very similar experience with learning Lisp – it’s alien, and apparently great and wonderful, but how do you actually USE it? …then in fact nobody does use it, because there is so much cruft…

Eventually I came upon Clojure, which is a modern day Lisp that compiles to Java bytecode. Then I changed my mind and continued to learn Lisp, and so far I am really pumped about it. There are indeed so many really cool aspects of the language that make you think differently about software, but like you said – you just need to START CODING and see for yourself.

I posted a tutorial here for learning Clojure:
http://lifeofaprogrammergeek.blogspot.com/2009/03/learning-clojure-and-emacs.html

By: Protector one

Protector one — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:54:53 +0000

So, probably COBOL.

By: Peter Jaric

Peter Jaric — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:46:36 +0000

The Language-That-Should-Not-Be-Named, the Forbidden-One, the Name-That-Should-Not-Be-Spoken.

By: slicedlime

slicedlime — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:51:35 +0000

Ah, no… I think it looks interesting, but haven’t looked into it yet. I learnt another language and did other stuff instead — specificly web programming.

By: Protector one

Protector one — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:11:53 +0000

So did you learn F#? What cool stuff did you do?