Lisp is the source of almost everything that makes programming easy, welcoming, forgiving of mistakes and inclusive. (Except the ability to use infix syntax to calculate a formula, which goes back mostly to Fortran.)
It should be taught to small children in schools. All kids should know how to correctly use macroexpand with an environment argument inside the body of a macrolet by the time they finish eighth grade. No elitist secrets!
At least Excel has lambda now. That means every MBA who finds it in a reference manual and starts using it is ahead of most of his or her peers that went to CS.
It should be taught to small children in schools. All kids should know how to correctly use macroexpand with an environment argument inside the body of a macrolet by the time they finish eighth grade. No elitist secrets!
At least Excel has lambda now. That means every MBA who finds it in a reference manual and starts using it is ahead of most of his or her peers that went to CS.