> Lisp asks a lot of the user up front.
Like what? Last time I checked you get a repl and type away. If you have a mac you can install CCL from the app store and don't even have to use the terminal to get to a repl.
> Python doesn't. C# doesn't. Fuck, Python is so loose that you don't even really need to know what any of the structure is to start writing something that kicks back some output.
again, not unlike lisp.
> Lisp isn't THAT hard', but that's bullshit. Lisp IS that hard
Care to back up that claim? AFAIR The SCIP barely spends a page explaining the semantics. The CONCEPTS in teaches are hard(er) but they are not lisp. In fact one of the reasons the SICP was written in Scheme is so that you _don't_ have to waste half a semester teaching the language before you can get to the fun, important, useful stuff. The little schemer doesn't spend much time teaching lisp either.
> Python doesn't. C# doesn't. Fuck, Python is so loose that you don't even really need to know what any of the structure is to start writing something that kicks back some output.
again, not unlike lisp.
> Lisp isn't THAT hard', but that's bullshit. Lisp IS that hard
Care to back up that claim? AFAIR The SCIP barely spends a page explaining the semantics. The CONCEPTS in teaches are hard(er) but they are not lisp. In fact one of the reasons the SICP was written in Scheme is so that you _don't_ have to waste half a semester teaching the language before you can get to the fun, important, useful stuff. The little schemer doesn't spend much time teaching lisp either.