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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: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 05 2021, @10:39AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 05 2021, @10:39AM (#1202326)

    You know, you're on to something. That format is just screaming out in the hope that you implement it in COBOL. Two birds with one stone, that is. You can add COBOL experience (I hear it is in high demand /s) and IRS/financial software experience to your resume. What better way to make yourself seem too old and too expensive to hire at the same time?

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 18 2021, @05:13PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 18 2021, @05:13PM (#1206170)

    Cobol is a form of Ransomware?