I absolutely did not appreciate much of what it was saying when I was a freshman. I’m not sure if that’s a failure on the book’s part.
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Like I learned no LISP from it. Maybe I benefited from reading it too early?
Also I think I stopped halfway through.
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That's okay: learning LISP is not the point. Benefiting conceptually from e.g. its homoiconicity is!
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i'm strongly in favor of the idea LISP is one of those things to be raided for ideas but not actually used
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