Proud to Have Programmed in LISP…
…But not necessarily to have excelled in it!
Lisp ranks up there among the most difficult languages I’ve tried. The UP Diliman BS CS program exposes its students to a wide array of programming languages and paradigms (object-oriented, expression-oriented, and so on), and Lisp was one of those ‘heavyweights’ in CS 150. Other languages were Perl, Tcl, Haskell, Python, Smalltalk, and Prolog.The good and bad memories of Lisp:
- GOOD. Of course, hurdling a language most programmers would find alien always feels good.
- BAD. “Give an overview of the Lisp syntax” was the question I drew for a 5-minute oral exam. It was the only topic I wasn’t prepared for out of a dozen.
- GOOD. Sophia and I managed to finish LUKIM: A Pure Lisp Interpreter in Java on the deadline, evading an Incomplete grade!
- BAD. Have you tried coding a Lisp program by hand in a pressure-packed exam?
Even steven, I guess!
*Those nice Lisp logos come from Lisperati.com.
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November 8th, 2005 at 2:51 am
mention, too, what we were supposed to do with lisp! insertion sort? bubble sort? gahhh! x_x
November 8th, 2005 at 10:17 pm
horror of horrors!
November 9th, 2005 at 12:09 am
Lisp? Argh! No! I don’t want to think about it, huhuhu.
November 11th, 2005 at 9:41 am
Come to think of it, I should have studied there in D… Oh well, there’s still the graduate school
November 13th, 2005 at 3:15 pm
to fleeb: should you continue, then you’d be fortunate enough to use the new CS building (see my next post)…