> On the contrary.
http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html
> --Brock
Brock -- thanks for this link. I paid $60 for that classic book, and
last year, when I swore off computers (for about two weeks), I donated
it to the library. Now I can have it back. :-)
> If you really want to "look into the face of God" check out
> a modern functional programming language: Haskell. See
> http://www.haskell.org
>
> Fritz
Fritz: Thanks -- the articles I pointed to talk about Erlang and
Haskell but I thought I'd start with Lisp. I think I need to grok
Lisp first.
> I won't claim to be permanently transformed, but I grok Lisp
> (and functional programming in general) fairly well.
Joseph -- I may contact you off-list with an occasional question. I
will look into Lisp Newbies resources first, of course.
> If you're interested in functional programming in general, I find that
> learning XSLT (which is a functional language) is both enlightening
> and practical, it's also pretty fun, especially with XSL-FO thrown in for grins.
Now that *is* insteresting. I bounced hard off XSLT too. I then
donated my XSLT books to the library. >:-(
The fact that I bounced off both Lisp and XSLT (while doing fine with
Python etc) says that there are fundamental concepts which I didn't
grasp. I intend to rectify that this time.
I will keep XSLT in mind as I go along. One of the links I posted
uses XML as the "gateway concept" to grokking lisp. Interesting!
> That said, here are a couple books for Lisp that I recall as being acceptable.
Thanks for the book details! I use abebooks.com and powells.com for
almost all my used book searches.
Thanks, everyone, for the advice --
Craig
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