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Subject: Re: Why do people like C? (Was: Comparison: Beta - Lisp)
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In article <38hg54$3to@jetsam.ee.pdx.edu>
           marcus@ee.pdx.edu "Marcus Daniels" writes:

> I like CLtL.  Very useful book, I think anyone with experience with
> other programming languages could use it to learn Lisp.

It may be possible, but I wouldn't call it the easiest way to learn
CL. A tutorial would have to be very bad for a reference book, even
a very good one, to be better. CLtL is a _big_ and complex book. I'm
sure that most people would find it intimidating. I know I did, at
first, and I was already familiar with "Lisp" and a subset of CL.

I'm positive that most programmers that I know would be completely
freaked out by CLtL. Even Smalltalk can do that to some people.
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