Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!border-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!border-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-3.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:42:07 +0000 From: steve g Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Resources to learn common lisp? References: <874inbqdz7.fsf@mariorosell.es> <87ecmf8488.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <874ina49v1.fsf@mariorosell.es> <10nd85c$1jipc$4@dont-email.me> Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:41:56 -0400 Message-ID: <87ldcpm1bf.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:n90CwOSCq6BR3IpD4pohHNxuDXc= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 23 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-T4adKSYqpA/ZEaY+ye3D0L06jHa7O+jk9gJLL2L6Hp5OxhkXmy+hdLNbljo0GpzZAbkhnA7dpzAj4PY!RHQtjHN1vkrSgd7Xteh0nnL1hY+JeOvQ1c4gfU1iR6F6Oko= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.lisp:60820 Lawrence D’Oliveiro writes: > On Sat, 21 Feb 2026 12:25:06 +0100, Mario Rosell wrote: > < > Just for fun. It seems like a pretty interesting language. agrereed. the language supports interactive programming. It is much faster at compiling lisp than C++. > > Lisp is a pretty interesting language, but it was never standardized > to the extent that we expect of languages today. Look at the Common > Lisp spec, and it still retains a lot of baggage to maintain > compatibility with obsolete OSes that simply don’t matter any more. Uhmmm, that makes me feel bad about ny self. > And also, which particular Lisp do you want to learn? There are a > number in common use today: this is false. common lisp is a programming language.