Well one person answered and disagreed and he was a professor too, so I am no longer feeling disheartened about my efforts to learn Lisp. I am glad that it is not a universally held point of view, since I did not agree with it then or now.
------------Original Message------------
From: "Richard Hennessy"<rvh2007 at comcast.net>
To: "Raymond Toy" <toy.raymond at gmail.com>, "Dieter Kaiser" <drdieterkaiser at web.de>
Cc: maxima at math.utexas.edu, "'Robert Dodier'" <robert.dodier at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jun-27-2008 8:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Maxima] Further work on $specint
Hi,
I had a professor in my college days who said that anyone who has not learned Lisp by age 22 will never be able to learn it. I thought the guy was an &%*().... for saying that and dropped the course because I was over 22. Does anyone agree/disagree?
Rich
------------Original Message------------
From: Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com>
To: "Dieter Kaiser" <drdieterkaiser at web.de>
Cc: maxima at math.utexas.edu, "'Robert Dodier'" <robert.dodier at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jun-26-2008 8:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Maxima] Further work on $specint
Dieter Kaiser wrote:
> I will do my best and try to adapt the "good" Lisp style. Please give me a hint
> if you have problems with my style of programing.
>
>
Google for "good lisp style". One decent starting point would be
www.lisp.org/table/style.htm.
> Im learning Lisp now since 1 1/2 years. Lisp in combination with Maxima is
> wonderful to program mathematic. At first Lisp seems to me very strange, but
> after learning the principles and the different way of programing in Lisp, it's
> much more productiv as C++ for me. A lot of things one need to program
> mathematic are just part of Lisp or Maxima. I like it very much.
>
>
People often say how hard it is to learn Lisp and stuff. You are a
great counter-example to that claim. It's like learning any other
language: Go find a good tutorial and an interesting problem you want
to solve and do it. :-)
Ray
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