Subject: Re: Why lisp failed in the marketplace From: Erik
Naggum <> Date: 1997/02/27 Newsgroups:
comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.scheme Message-ID: <>  * Markku
Laukkanen | Well, I consider myself a good Lisp programmer, and
it took me over a | year to MASTER the Common Lisp. Of course,
if you mean some C/C++ like | programming, it is possible to
grab CL quite soon, but to learn CL in two | weeks..  That is a
good joke.  more anecdotal evidence: I don't know how much time
I spent learning the basics in Lisp, because I don't think I
spent any conscious time on it. The Little Lisper lay on a table
in the "pause area" where I once worked, and I picked it up and
read it.  reading that book was probably all it took to get most
of the basics down pat.  (I was somewhere between 13 and 15 at
the time, probably very impressionable.)  the rest has just sort
of floated my way, _except_ for the more advanced aspects of
CLOS and the condition system, which I still find troubling --
philosophical misalignment, I guess.  (`change