Re: Have you read SICP

Why should I believe you, or follow a link from someone in their first 10 posts? Why is that book worth reading? What does SICP stand for?

Hmm, at least the link seems to be honest (pointing where it appears to point).

Thanks.

Do you understand why Lisp's syntax is the way it is? Because you should.

Lisp is a truly multi-paradigm programming language. It has features for functional programming, declarative programming, OOP, imperative programming, and it is easily extensible.

While in Haskell you have the purity of functional programming, in Lisp you have told top make the language be whatever you want. Do you want lazy evaluation? The language does not offer it in the standard, but you can easily implement it. While in Haskell you have implicit typing, in Lisp you have other powerful typing features (like multimethods, change-class and compiler hints).

You'll only understand what is so awesome about Lisp if you try to hack it foot some time.