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What Lisp should I learn?

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-30 20:20

I already know Scheme (read SICP, took the class, got an A, wrote a logo interpreter in Scheme, wrote a Scheme interpreter in Python, etc.) but I haven't touched it much in two years. It seems to be great for computation, and I can certainly see where it would be a perfect fit for artificial intelligence, but I can't imagine using it for applications or even simple scripts.

So tell me /prog/, what Lisp dialect should I learn or at least what are the pros and cons of each?

Name: Anonymous 2011-10-30 23:07

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CL carries whole bloat of hairy features that are +50 years old and don't have modern ones out-of-the-box, like continuations or persistent data structures. But CL has great compilers. It's libraries also rely heavily on OOP, which was shown to be inconsistent dead end paradigm.

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