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Cumol  ·  1768 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: GNU Guile 3.0.0 released

I don't know what relevance this has. Can someone explain?

I am pretty new to the programming world. Just started writing R scripts (and my first package) about 3 years ago.

I haven't learned python yet (beyond a few simple things to get me through the odd jupyter notebook).

I am, however, using emacs on a daily basis. So lisp, and specifically, emacs lisp has been on my to-do list to learn.

Why do people like lisp so much? And what does it mean for a language to be a dialect of lisp (scheme)?