On: The descent to C

[massysett]

>C is quite different, at a fundamental level, from languages like Java and Python.

I suppose, but functional languages are even more different. From Python, the ascent to Lisp or Haskell is much more difficult conceptually than the descent to C.

[fulafel → massysett]

I thought lisp pretty easy to approach coming from python once the parens stopped sticking out. lisp is not really a FP language.

http://norvig.com/python-lisp.html