When did you first try Lisp seriously, and which Lisp family member was it?
1988 (?), CLtL-1 Common Lisp
What led you to try Lisp?
SICP-based course in 1988 and then a recommendation for an on-campus Common Lisp job (on Symbolics) by that prof.
Where did your road originate?
Fortran as an engineering student on a CDC to Basic on a Z80 home computer to Pascal under CP/M to Modula-2 under BSD/Vax to Scheme (TI) on a PC to Common Lisp on TI/Sybolics/Sun
How far have you gotten in your study of Lisp?
I can actually follow most of the threads on CLL except heavy duty CLOS.
What do you think of Lisp so far?
Never failed me yet.
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