I, DJ Clark, do solemnly offer these my responses to The Road to Lisp Survey:

When did you first try Lisp seriously, and which Lisp family member was it? First encountered as student in 1983
wrote MSc 'Knowledge Engineering' dissertation using CLISP in 1996

What led you to try Lisp?

It was a lot more fun than Prolog and C, even as a write-only-language is beyond me

What other languages have you been using most?

Python

How far have you gotten in your study of Lisp?

Not much further than in 1997, but history and philosophy of computing is my main interest these days

What do you think of Lisp so far?

the 'classical language' of computing, no educated computationalist should be without hit anymore than a humanist could be without Latin and Greek

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