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A Friendly Introduction to Racket
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For decades, Lisp was the language of artificial intelligence.
Key facts
- In The Amazing Digital Circus (episode 8, "hjsakldfhl"), when Kinger opens the terminal to try to reset Caine, you can see that Caine (a creative AI built in 1996) is programmed in Lisp
- In 1975, Gerald Sussman and Guy Steele created Scheme: a minimalist, elegant, almost mathematical Lisp
- There's no operator precedence to memorize, no special syntax for anything. (+ 1 2) adds. (if.) decides. (define.) names
- In 1995, Matthias Felleisen's group created PLT Scheme, a Scheme designed for education and programming language research
Summary
"Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it. Today you'll learn a language from one of programming's oldest and most unusual families. Lisp was born in 1958, invented by John McCarthy at MIT. Garbage collection, invented for Lisp. First-class functions, passing functions as arguments, now standard everywhere.