Lisping and Scheming

[Wagner, Steven G]

MIT offers a ton of free webinars/lectures and there are some on artificial
intelligence, maybe related to LISP. Didn't have time to go through the
entire list, but here's the link.
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/all-courses.htm#ElectricalEngineeringandCom
puterScience

They also offer some podcasts, if you're on the go or, like me, listen to
podcast lectures while you're working ;). Really love the ones from
live-ammo.com! They have a four-hour set on Computer Forensics that was
sweet.

I watched an MIT lecture on the Research Channel about comp sci once and it
was very interesting, I'll definitely be using the ocw page a lot.

Would you use emacs for LISP programming? There was a guy in my C++ class
about 5 years ago at PVCC who was a lisp programmer at American Express here
in Phoenix.

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Two quick points:

1) I'm a west-sider:  The Blender presentation and the location both
look great.  I'm out of town on the 27th but am looking forward to
future meetings.

2) I want to learn Lisp and seek the enlightenment of "functional
programming."  I tried before, but bounced off.  This is just for my
own personal education.

These articles have gotten me re-fired up.

http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/fp.html
http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html

Has anyone on this list been to the mountaintop and been permanently
transformed by Lisp?  Any advice for a re-learner like me, as to
books, classes, resources?  I can't go take a class at MIT -- I have
to do it here.  :-)

Craig
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