I, _Russell Snow, 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?
October 2004, Clisp on Mandrake Linux.

What led you to try Lisp?
Paul Graham's website. It was a link from slashdot that got me to read his stuff. I was learning Python as an intellectual exercise and becam fascinated by his claims of power beyond my wildest imaginings. I started reading OnLisp as a newbie and am hooked. As I take a course on advanced c++ (template metaprogramming) thing after thing we are doing is just making up for the fact that c++ is not Lisp.

What other languages have you been using most?
C/C++, Python, Bash

How far have you gotten in your study of Lisp?
Reading OnLisp and piddling in a clisp window on linux

What do you think of Lisp so far?
I wish c++ had macros like that.

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