> Getting help is also often a problem. Experienced Common Lispers assume a basic understanding of the language, good style practice, and familiarity with Emacs and the associated Common Lisp tooling installed. Asking for help as a beginner, and posting a small snippet of code, more often than not results in a wall of text of replies asking the user to fix their style before they can consider helping. This is quite disuading as a newcomer, and detracts from the user's learning path. In extreme cases, which are not rare at all, the community can be quite inflammatory towards newcomer questions, as they often get very upset over incorrect terminology or improperly formatted code.
It’s a shame to see such posts as you were a cordial and enjoyable member of the IRC community for quite some time. For me, it’s one of the better IRC channels out there and I learnt a lot from the PROFESSORS of computer science who regularly helped newcomers in the channel #clschool. [lisp123]
Otherwise glad to see you have found something enjoyable and curious on how you have pivoted away from CLOS, maybe I should investigate Julia too
It’s a shame to see such posts as you were a cordial and enjoyable member of the IRC community for quite some time. For me, it’s one of the better IRC channels out there and I learnt a lot from the PROFESSORS of computer science who regularly helped newcomers in the channel #clschool. [lisp123]
Otherwise glad to see you have found something enjoyable and curious on how you have pivoted away from CLOS, maybe I should investigate Julia too