I see mixed comments,
so let me add some praise.
I am one of countless, who match
his intro-filter:
repeatedly hearing 'enlightened'
people lament that the vast masses don't "get" lisp and FP,
and repeatedly attempting/failing to pick up the red string myself.
background - I am a computer science major with 30+ years experience. I did do a mandatory class of 'implement your own lisp' many eons ago.
It just never really 'clicked' for me.
I do, by accident, assimilation and lazyness,employ
FP style designs in my software.
And I guess fp techniques gradually rub off on me from e.g. javascript, lambdas,closures, and map-filter-reduce.
in particular, lambdas are useful to me.
But I am one of the guys who
continue to read the "let me tell you what monads really are", and every time I fall off the bicycle.
So, well, I appreciated this 'Xfor 5year olds" :-)
background - I am a computer science major with 30+ years experience. I did do a mandatory class of 'implement your own lisp' many eons ago. It just never really 'clicked' for me. I do, by accident, assimilation and lazyness,employ FP style designs in my software. And I guess fp techniques gradually rub off on me from e.g. javascript, lambdas,closures, and map-filter-reduce. in particular, lambdas are useful to me. But I am one of the guys who continue to read the "let me tell you what monads really are", and every time I fall off the bicycle. So, well, I appreciated this 'Xfor 5year olds" :-)