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@screwtape @hajovonta @amszmidt Wo0t!

Thanks for posting my link. :)

The reason I don't do a tutorial is because there are a gazillion unfinished LISP "tutorials" out there. It's really annoying how some people who start learinng Lisp need to write a "book" as if they're a pro, while they're learning, but then deek out the moment they realize it is actual work and they are over their heads. The Internet is flooded with this rubbish, and I'd rather not bury myself in it or heap it upon others.

There is even one I keep seeing well-meaning Lisp people promote when someone asks to learn. All they need to do is look through the chapters, and they'll realize it gets about as far as "hello world" and then drops off with only empty spaces for chapters. The TOC sounds awesome, and the guy pretends it is a "second edition" as if it was finished once before, but there is no content in that supposed "book"! At all!

That drives me nuts even more, because these people should know better than to promote learning material they've never read themselves... otherwise they'd never recommend it. And it is a constant.

I'm not setting myself up to be that.

(Sorry if I sound pissy. I'm really not.. This IS my pet peeve, as everyone who knows me will tell you.)

But I am always uploading my weird Lisp code bits that do things in surprising ways. Sometimes I upload them here as "challenges" because I delight in the weirdness of doing weird things in such a weird language, lol.

But you will get a taste for my absurd tastes in Lisp programming from the link that Screwtape posted up there.

For the record, I used to teach pentesting at IBM. Back then things weren't so automated, so some of the things I taught, I used Lisp to demonstrate lol. Much easier to read than the C exploits, even if you hate parens!