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A Road to Lisp: Why Lisp
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This article explores the unique benefits and steep learning curve of the Lisp programming language. It argues that despite its unconventional syntax, Lisp offers programmers a different way of thinking and capabilities not found in more common languages.
The question that most programmers face when seeing some Lisp code for the first time is, without doubt, “what the hell is this?”. I asked myself the same thing when I first read its unconventional syntax: all those parentheses, the weird indentation, and who thought to use the first argument of format to print to stdout?
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