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From: thantos@runic.mind.org (Alexander Williams)
Subject: Re: Why do people like C? (Was: Comparison: Beta - Lisp)
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Date: Wed, 2 Nov 1994 02:27:36 GMT
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In article <783533250snz@wildcard.demon.co.uk>,
Cyber Surfer <cyber_surfer@wildcard.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Then I'd say you were in an unusual position. I'd never give a book
>like CLtL to a Lisp newbie. I'm not even sure I'd give the 3rd edition
>of Winston and Horn to a Lisp newbie.

I guess I have to come out of the pit  I hide in and  say I learned CL
from CLtL 1.  In High School.  9th Grade.  By myself, without previous
experience  in  Lisp-like languages, only  Pascal  and  BASIC under my
belt.   Now /that/ might  mark me as  some  diseased creature (since I
/did/ only have PC-LISP and XLISP,  eventually, to work with), but its
true.  I think, as  a result of that  early experience, I /am/ a  more
flexible programmer because of it as well as despise working in C/C++,
but that's another story...


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