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   Yukari Hafner :v_lesbian: (shinmera@mastodon.tymoon.eu)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 14:53:05 JST Yukari Hafner :v_lesbian:

   what more can I say to this than "skill issue"

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     Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 14:53:03 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

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     • Simon Brooke

     @simon_brooke i do not get the idea that Lisp requires a different idea of programming.. it is just another language. Is it because when Lisp is taught that it is all “functional” stuff that confuse people?

     @shinmera

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     Simon Brooke (simon_brooke@mastodon.scot)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 14:53:04 JST Simon Brooke

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     @shinmera I can (just -- it's a very long time ago) remember how strange and difficult I found #Lisp when I first used it.

     It is a whole different way of thinking. It didn't come naturally, at least to me. For me there was pretty much one break-through moment, after which understanding built quite quickly -- but before that moment, it was a struggle.

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     Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 17:28:08 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

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     • Simon Brooke

     @simon_brooke Might explain it, since I learnt Lisp the old way ... like Pascal or Algol.

     @shinmera

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     Simon Brooke (simon_brooke@mastodon.scot)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 17:28:09 JST Simon Brooke

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     • Alfred M. Szmidt

     @amszmidt @shinmera I *think* that it's recursion. Of course, Common #Lisp does not particularly emphasise recursion, but Portable Standard Lisp (which is where I came in) did.