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Re: "Learning Lisp as a non prgrammer: AI to the rescue?"
Emacs lisp is a decent way to get going.
Although I chose to dive in head first into CL, after deliberating about whether to choose Common Lisp or a Scheme. CL was definitely the right choice, even though Scheme appears to be more minimal... Scheme completely misses the mark when it comes to practical coding, and especially, macros.
PS...I thought I was a seasoned programmer but then I learned lisp and realized I had spent my life just diddling around in the sandbox.
17 hours ago
Learning Lisp as a non prgrammer: AI to the rescue? — Edit - Corrected small mistake. Hi there! So I've been trying to learn Racket with the HTDP method as a non-programmer, and it's not going well... The people of the Racket community are lovely and willing to help, but the so-called "beginners" section of their forum is so intimidating, I just feel embarassed asking stupid questions. That forum does *not* differentiate between "Newcomers to Racket", and "Absolute noobs"... They all go in...