Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2016 22:21:17 +0200 From: "Martin S. Weber" <Ephaeton@gmx.net> To: Allen <bsd_atog@comcast.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Simple" Languages in FreeBSD Message-ID: <20160701202117.GA1441@hephaistos.local> In-Reply-To: <20160630175243.063e07a7@KoggyBSD.org> References: <20160630175243.063e07a7@KoggyBSD.org>
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Get yourself a "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" (SICP), it's free and teaches scheme (a lisp). Once you've mastered that, you may happily delve into several "low-level" schemes, bells-and-whistles common lisps (e.g., clisp, sbcl), or "modern" lisps like e.g., clojure/clojurescript. If you take that route, you'll only have tired smiles for all the great ideas that these "modern" scripting languages come up with. If you add a bit of spice with e.g. Doug Hoyte's "Let Over Lambda", you might enlighten yourself how a high-level language like a lisp may get you hand-crafted assembler like performance. Do yourself a favor and stay away from the modern scripting languages that try to quirkily reimplement half-a-century old lisp (or smalltalk) ideas. Do it proper. Go Lisp. Enjoy.
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