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by tomtheelder 1339 days ago
What would you say the value is in learning some sort of lisp? I see the value in all the others, but lisp dialects tend to be pretty vanilla aside from their syntax. I can't think of anything you'd learn from lisp that you wouldn't from Haskell.
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I think the big value is in learning to work with the AST itself, internalizing structure and representation. And how else are you supposed to enjoy SICP?
I’d imagine idiomatic use of macros.
Ah that makes a lot of sense.
Macros