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Re: Age you started learning Lisp (was Re: Two unrelated remarks)
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| Jock Cooper 2004-04-22, 2:49 pm |
| Duane Rettig <duane@franz.com> writes:
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> I started learning Lisp at age 31.
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I was 34 when I downloaded CMUCL and bought Graham's ANSI Common Lisp book
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| Rob Warnock 2004-04-23, 8:34 am |
| Jock Cooper <jockc@mail.com> wrote:
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| Duane Rettig <duane@franz.com> writes:
| > I started learning Lisp at age 31.
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| I was 34 when I downloaded CMUCL and bought Graham's ANSI Common Lisp book
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While I was briefly & superficially exposed to Lisp 1.5 when I
was 25 or so (can you say "Eliza"?), it wasn't until I was 46
that I seriously started learning and using Scheme, some time
later still to begin reading about Common Lisp (including "ANSI CL"
and "On Lisp"), and it wasn't until I was *56* that I started
seriously coding in Common Lisp (and dropped Scheme).
Oh, well, some of us are slow... ;-} ;-}
-Rob
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| Gorbag 2004-04-23, 1:38 pm |
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"Rob Warnock" <rpw3@rpw3.org> wrote in message
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> Jock Cooper <jockc@mail.com> wrote:
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> | Duane Rettig <duane@franz.com> writes:
> | > I started learning Lisp at age 31.
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> | I was 34 when I downloaded CMUCL and bought Graham's ANSI Common Lisp
book
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> While I was briefly & superficially exposed to Lisp 1.5 when I
> was 25 or so
I guess most of what I know about Lisp I learned at 2 years old. The Lisp
Language I picked up later, maybe 18?
The point is, that many of the Lisp concepts stem from a way of thinking
about the world, which personally I found more natural than the artificial
ones foisted on me in the interim by the likes of FORTRAN, COBOL, PL/I, etc.
I think that's why when I glommed onto Lisp it stuck with me, though I
didn't start using it professionally until many years later (at 27).
So I'd have to say I started learning Lisp at 2, though I didn't know at the
time that that was what I was doing :-).
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