Subject: Re: Age you started learning Lisp (was Re: Two unrelated remarks)
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 06:56:35 -0500
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <Qa2dnV2GUMHumRTdRVn-hA@speakeasy.net>
Jock Cooper  <jockc@mail.com> wrote:
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| Duane Rettig <duane@franz.com> writes:
| > I started learning Lisp at age 31.
| 
| I was 34 when I downloaded CMUCL and bought Graham's ANSI Common Lisp book
+---------------

While I was briefly & superficially exposed to Lisp 1.5 when I
was 25 or so (can you say "Eliza"?), it wasn't until I was 46
that I seriously started learning and using Scheme, some time
later still to begin reading about Common Lisp (including "ANSI CL"
and "On Lisp"), and it wasn't until I was *56* that I started
seriously coding in Common Lisp (and dropped Scheme).

Oh, well, some of us are slow...   ;-}   ;-}


-Rob

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