When did you first try Lisp seriously, and which Lisp family member was it?
It was in 1980/81 or so. I bought Allen's book Anatomy of
LISP. And tried to get a copy of Lisp for the school computer.
The computer was an Alpha LSI-2. I think the Lisp was as a port of
Lisp 1.5, called Lisp 1.56 (IIRC). Unfortunately I could not get
enough machine time to try it out properly. But I studied the source
code.
Later in 1984 I started University and there we used InterLISP on
a DEC-20.
What led you to try Lisp?
In 1979 I had an intriguing conversation with someone about Lisp,
and later I read the BYTE articles in their special Lisp issue.
Where did your road originate?
Z80 Assembler.
How far have you gotten in your study of Lisp?
I have been at it for some time now, but I don't feel I have
completely mastered Common Lisp.
What do you think of Lisp so far?
I have at times been dissatisfied with Lisp and gone looking for
other languages. I have been trying Prolog, Modula-3, Python, etc.
But I haven't found anything that is, on the whole, better than Lisp.
I have therefor returned to the fold.
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