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barrenko on Oct 14, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: What I wish I knew when learning F#

Clojure is pretty cool, but I've come to understanding that as a beginner I would have been better off just learning good old Lisp.

gorjusborg on Oct 15, 2021 [–]

Yeah, even as a veteran java programmer, I could really only get clojure after mastering a scheme (racket).

I highly recommend 'The Little Schemer' if someone wanted to tread the same ground. Such a strange and fun little book.

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