Path: csiph.com!news.nrbbs.org!border-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!border-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:18:01 +0000 From: steve g Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Resources to learn common lisp? References: <110nf0q$3vra6$3@dont-email.me> <87y0gg62cx.fsf@nightsong.com> <110rfqf$142ot$1@dont-email.me> <111ne5o$vsm3$3@dont-email.me> <111pbk6$36pi7$1@dont-email.me> <111sb7u$3ua8h$7@dont-email.me> <8fj54lpvg7v6mhi9r9u39tpojbjage8br4@4ax.com> <87mrwdyt0t.fsf@nightsong.com> <1127cho$34rpg$3@dont-email.me> <112o41b$cmhr$1@dont-email.me> <87bjcd5glk.fsf@nightsong.com> <1132kmp$3ir0q$2@dont-email.me> <1133iap$3sput$1@dont-email.me> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:18:01 -0400 Message-ID: <87o6fpturq.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:LZvyPWEKsZcGKG1Jmn3Xtf+zA3Y= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Lines: 15 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-dC7kIZ5CWZlPKohas4dPJpxr6oXwKKrXAOIC9Al3gJmoMt9yTNYtyuPcyUAqOkJb3aj5WI2dRPkrp2a!WeAExylZm8G5cNiP3tSm95RleC5FeD8bnFrrGDHAagbFvDk= 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:61237 tfb writes: > George Neuner wrote: >> >> Certainly there is junk out there, but more often the "popular" choice >> just is something that worked ok for its original purpose, and somehow >> received a lot of attention [and emulation]. > > I agree. As I think I've said previously here(*) I think both C and Unix > were just astonishingly good designs ... for the PDP-11. Not so great > (especially C) on today's systems. Let me guess, you can squeeze more scheme into the cput if it were buffer and had more silicon. people usually use what works. You do not like C because it is not python. get over it.