Hi Plagiarized from Cleartrips.com blog:- http://blog.cleartrip.com/journal/2007/7/7/lisp-is-sin-and-all-data-is-code.html
"I believe Lisp, as a language, attracts a very specific type of person--and it's not the average bloke who takes computer science classes in college or enrols in a diploma course because programming is where the jobs are." regards Nataraj On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Siddhesh Poyarekar <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 2:04 PM, steve <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'd say learn C only if you are interested in systems programming. There >> just is >> no way to do systems programming and /not/ know C -- but that's about the >> only >> thing C would be useful for these days. >> >> Since you know python, you won't learn anything new from C++ and will only >> end >> up wondering why C++ programmers do that to themselves. >> >> If you want to improve programming chops, learn lisp or any other functional >> programming language. > > +1 > > And if you want to explore the programming languages of your younger > days, but with a twist, then there is always multithreaded COBOL ;) > > -- > Siddhesh Poyarekar > http://siddhesh.in > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
