https://lwn.net/Articles/795385/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "Racket: Lisp for learning". en-us Thu, 23 Oct 2025 13:54:35 +0000 Thu, 23 Oct 2025 13:54:35 +0000 https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification lwn@lwn.net https://lwn.net/Articles/795694/ https://lwn.net/Articles/795694/ pr1268 <p>I'm still kicking myself for never having learned lisp... All this Racket (pun intended) may change that.</p> <p>As for Lisp and Fortran being &quot;old&quot;&mdash;I just read <a href="https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/37980">this</a> today. First answer mentioned that</p> <blockquote><font class="QuotedText">...NASA specified that his [the engineer who retired in 2015] replacement would have to know Fortran.</font></blockquote> <P>Just goes to show that these legacy languages refuse to die! :-)</p> Thu, 08 Aug 2019 05:41:15 +0000