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.

I thought LISP was cool. I didn't really know it. I had read some SICP and knew basics of Scheme, which seemed pretty neat.

Then I tried EMACS and elisp that came with it. In elisp, when you created anonymous function, you have to do something like (FUNCALL some-shit-fun). Uhh, right? Why can't I just use them like other functions? Ok, then someone says Common Lisp does the same. So that you can't call functions stored in variables directly. Basically functions are not first class citizens then. I can't understand why people think COMMON LISP is such a great language??

Nowdays I think LISP is just like any other scripting language, but just more limited (=worse). And that's all beacause of COMMON LISP. Also, GC is shit.