Comments on: TIL everything in Lisp is a function

By: Ryan Rauh

Ryan Rauh — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:17:00 +0000

First off I am merely beginning to learn lisp and functional programming.

I’ve heard the saying “write once, read never” in regards to lisp. From 10 feet it is really confusing still to me.

I didn’t really start understand lisp until I read up on abstract syntax trees and once you understand that concept lisp gets much easier to read and understand.

When is saw (if (> b 0) + -) is was like omg that’s kind of amazing!

By: phil jay

phil jay — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:17:00 +0000

I have a question to someone experienced with lisp or generally functional programming: Could you read this from 10 feet and know what it does at the first gaze?? I mean it’s like wtf a first and then like wow awesome! But can I even get used to it at all?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:10:00 +0000

Sweet, well I look forward to reading all the insights that you come to as well. It’s taking me a long time to go through SICP mostly because I get tripped up on concepts that I already know. It’s like year one kinda stuff too, like normal-order vs. applicative-order concepts I already knew just didn’t know the term for them

By: Derick Bailey

Derick Bailey — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 02:45:00 +0000

nice! love the baby pic

I started learn you a haskell last week. I’ve only gone through the first section, but it’s already blown my mind a number of times, and is helping me make sense of otherwise crazy and confusing things in some of my usual languages (like javascript, ruby, c#)