A Smalltalker (another *great* language) who enjoys LISP almost as much took note of a thread about Aha! moments in LISP. Check out what he has to say and the thread itself:
http://onsmalltalk.com/programming/smalltalk/aha-moments-in-lisp/
David Douthitt wrote:
A Smalltalker (another *great* language) who enjoys LISP almost as much took note of a thread about Aha! moments in LISP.
So what were *your* Aha! moments? To me - to date - these were some of mine:
* Realizing that text formatting had *nothing* to do with printf() formatting.
* Building an application - like layers on an onion (or better yet, a baseball): start with a core, wrap it, wrap that with another function, wrap that....
* Understanding how macros really worked (from "On Lisp")
What are yours?
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David Douthitt