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[Indecipherable]

Hey!

I am present on quite a few forums and found CodeCall very interesting, informative and popular.

I'm 14 and a self-taught programmer and enjoy coding in Common Lisp, Python; and slowly getting into JS and ASM.
Then markup languages like HTML and AIML...

I'll have fun contributing to the forum.
Thanks!
~Indecipherable~

[WingedPanther]

Welcome aboard! How'd you get into Lisp?

[RhetoricalRuvim]

I also learned JavaScript and Assembly at around the same time; though HTML was the first any type of computer language I ever learned.

[Indecipherable]

WingedPanther said:

Welcome aboard! How'd you get into Lisp?

Thanks!
I think I was researching about A.I and Lisp sort of came up... Then I got hooked on the syntax :)

[WingedPanther]

Lisp, you either love or hate the syntax. Noone is ambivalent.

[Indecipherable]

I really think that the code is flexible and the macros are very cool, but I find its popularity somewhat discouraging. :(

[WingedPanther]

Lisp is a great language, but it requires a very different way of thinking from the languages most people learn first. Functional programming feels very alien to people who are used to procedural/OOP. It will give you a huge leg-up on F#, though.

[RhetoricalRuvim]

Yeah, it's different. I don't know Lisp, but I did learn some Haskell.

I don't know if every functional language is like that, but Haskell uses recursion; though with recursion the program runs out of stack space, eventually.

[WingedPanther]

Most functional languages make heave use of recursion, from necessity. The math side of it is called Recursive Functions, and can be used to build the equivalent of Turing Machines using function calls. Lots of fun, if you don't mind your brain being tied into knots. Turing Machines are based on state. There's also something called Enumerable Sets that is also equivalent.