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Which LISP?

Journal by turgid

Which LISP should I learn? Years ago I read about Scheme and wrote some hello world level code. I learned about lambda functions and currying. I also looked at racket. A few years ago, much of my day job involved the JVM and I was getting sick of Java so I got a book on Clojure, which is a very nice language, but I never wrote any.

A few days ago I downloaded and built the latest version of DrRacket.

Should I go straight to Haskell? Or what about other functional languages? Is Erlang worth a look?

I need something stimulating to distract my brain from the mundane nature of everyday life, and mediocre programming languages.

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 27 2021, @11:16PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 27 2021, @11:16PM (#1200094)

    That won't work. You need to plant them on land or they float away.

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