[aklug] Re: land of lisp

* Christopher Howard <christopher.howard@frigidcode.com> [131121 18:58]:
> On 11/21/2013 10:38 AM, Tim Johnson wrote:
>
> I'll put it on my list, though at the moment I'm pretty focused on
> Common Lisp with SBCL. SBCL is pretty nice because practically all the
> quicklisp libraries were made for it, and (big plus!) it has native
> thread support for x86_64. Everybody else has been telling me to try
> Racket. At the moment I'm just trying to get good at one system that I
> like, instead of constantly trying new compilers.
  SBCL = Steel Bank Common Lisp - developed at Carnegie-Mellon.

  Racket I would recommend - formerly 'Scheme'. Developed around
  tail recursion as the Big Trick.

  Also, you may find the 'Little Schemer' books to be enlightening,
  along with the Kanren extensions.

>
> I was thinking about looking at Clojure or Erlang, because there seems
> to quite a few jobs for them. So little time...
  You want a job? Learn PHP. Hahahahahah! <gulp>
  cheers

-- 
Tim 
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