2018-11-16 Friday and Common Lisp

It's finally Friday. I have survived a week that turned out to be much
crazier than I would ever expected. I finished covering on-call
support on Tuesday. I was busier than usual with that and ended up
with a lot of items left undone from other parts of my job. I've been
working away on these tasks all week since. At this point of the day
and of the week, I'm out of steam. I'm mostly going through the
moitions and only trying to get the minimum done. I just don't have
any mental capacity for work any more this week.

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Of course, my levels and ability to procrastinate are quite high right
now. I was scanning mastodon.sdf.org and found the following in my
feed:

#Lisp is the best #language in the world

https://kuomarc.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/why-i-love-common-lisp-and-hate-java/

(https://mastodon.social/@ShionKeys/101010708807820740/)

Oh lovely! A rabbit hole!

From there, I read an essay called "Beating the Averages"
(http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html) which reminded me how much I
enjoyed fooling around with Common Lisp in school. This language has a
strong connection to Emacs, my editor of choice, in that a dialect of
Common Lisp is Emacs Lisp (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs_Lisp),
which is the scripting language used by Emacs. It's not like I need a
project right now but it is just *fun* to play with programming
languages. It's why I went back to university part-time to take an
honours degree in Computer Science while working full-time.

I installed the Common Lisp packages on my Mageia 6.1 set-up and I'm
now ready to poke around. I think I'll dig out my old Lisp books from
school. Ooo! I just found a site that looks good too!:
https://common-lisp.net/

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I guess that's all I have to say here. I'd like to start fiddling
with Lisp now. :D