A road to Lisp: Why Lisp
- The question that most programmers face when seeing some Lisp code for the first time is, without doubt, “what the hell is this?
- I asked myself the same thing when I first read its unconventional syntax: all those parentheses, the weird indentation, and who thought to use the first argument of format to print to stdout?
- (defun flip-coin-for-real () (<= (random 100) 80))(defun hello-lisp () (write-line "What is your name?
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- The question that most programmers face when seeing some Lisp code for the first time is, without doubt, “what the hell is this?
- I asked myself the same thing when I first read its unconventional syntax: all those parentheses, the weird indentation, and who thought to use the first argument of format to print to stdout?
- (defun flip-coin-for-real () (<= (random 100) 80))(defun hello-lisp () (write-line "What is your name?
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