It's worth learning because it teaches you the low-level concepts. Even if you never write any production code in C, it will make you a better developer in any other language.
argh... I still remember trying to balance parentheses in university. That was a VERY long time ago!
Forth is one of those languages that, among others, I've been wanting to take a look at for many years. I remember reading in a computer magazine in the 80s about a home computer that had Forth as its built-in language instead of BASIC like all the others: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Ace
yes.. I know that.. but when I want to learn about manual memory management, low level driver development and things of that nature.. Lisp is of little use.
Lisp is for learning about higher level constructs.
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It's worth learning because it teaches you the low-level concepts. Even if you never write any production code in C, it will make you a better developer in any other language.
100% this - been going through C for CS50x and it's definitely helped me appreciate some of the lower-level ideas.
The same goes for Lisp or Forth.
LISP! ❤️
“Let’s Insert Some Parentheses”!
Compare the number of parentheses in the Lisp application and the same Java application. It's almost the same.
argh... I still remember trying to balance parentheses in university. That was a VERY long time ago!
Forth is one of those languages that, among others, I've been wanting to take a look at for many years. I remember reading in a computer magazine in the 80s about a home computer that had Forth as its built-in language instead of BASIC like all the others: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Ace
You need to define short functions and macros. The parentheses are then much more readable.
Lisp is great.. but I didn't learn any memory management concepts from it. Neither is it typically used to do hardware level tasks.
Come on, let's not get carried away here.
Lisp uses a garbage collector. It is also used at the hardware level instead of the operating system.
yes.. I know that.. but when I want to learn about manual memory management, low level driver development and things of that nature.. Lisp is of little use.
Lisp is for learning about higher level constructs.