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Your posts have inspired me to start a journey to become a perpetually aspiring Lisp programmer (and Emacs acolyte). I'm glad to be a part of the Lisp community.

I've started reading Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel (heard it's dead sexy), and will be following along with the practical examples.

Anything else I should be doing?

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@tux0r@layer8.space · 17 hours ago

@thoe @screwlisp I think the best way to get started, besides reading a (good!) book like that, is reading other people’s code and hanging around on the IRC where questions will be answered. At least that’s what I did. Welcome to Lisp!

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@screwlisp@gamerplus.org · 19 hours ago

@thoe I am really happy to hear that! If you saw the first five minutes of the ontolog summit before Ravi showed up where my video is on but nothing else is happening and no-one is saying anything, I had just read your post and was wondering what to say.

Increasingly I think that the most exciting parts of lisp are the fruits highest up in the tree, like the condition system. The bits of lisp thought leadership picked up by all other languages tended to be the low-hanging fruit.

screwlisp

@screwlisp@gamerplus.org · 19 hours ago

@thoe *Do* enjoy Seibel's book as intended.

A separate and complementary opinion:

If you look at my own exploration of the ansi cl condition system, since it was the *last* thing I figured out, I keep trying to program in the same way I am used to, with conditions tacked on, even though I want to embrace something new. Like Kay's pink versus blue thinking.

It would be so exciting and new to start out in lisp with computed restarts front and centre of your programming experience. #commonLisp

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