<div dir="ltr">Realm of Racket is quite good. I wish the sections on macros and languages could've been longer, they went a long way to finally demystifying them for me! </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Matthias Felleisen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matthias@ccs.neu.edu" target="_blank">matthias@ccs.neu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
On Nov 18, 2014, at 5:58 AM, J Arcane <<a href="mailto:jarcane@gmail.com">jarcane@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I think the "weirdness" and "difficulty" of Lisp syntax is mostly overstated anyhow, if I could get a handle at that age on the madness that was most languages then, and if kids now can get a handle on JavaScript of all things, I don't think the parens are so scary.<br>
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> I'll leave that to the Racket team. ;)<br>
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See Realm of Racket. It explicitly expects that someone has been exposed to a so-called programming course.<br>
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