Death of Flash
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@stewdio. its great to hear that you agree. i feel that certain parts of lisp will take me a long time to understand (some i probably never will), but so far its been lovely to work with. i may never see the proverbial lisp light (from what i hear its like being able to see the matrix), but its really bettering my understanding of programming (i'm mostly self taught, so i have A LOT of bad coding habits). also, picking up some lisp seems to have changed the way i use javascript (much for the better). i'm still at a "dabbling" stage with lisp, and may never get past just that, however it's been a great learning experience.
clojure is great! its easy to access the java language, and since you're working with lisp, you can even do things like dynamically change variables while running a PApplet (very cool for quick changes in processing projects without recompiling).
right now, i'm running clojure with aquamacs. there's a good tutorial here that can get you setup with emacs/slime/clojure pretty fast: http://yusupov.com/blog/2009/bas… . there's also a great book in the pragmatic programmers series called "Programming Clojure", its been extremely helpful.
i think i actually stumbled upon your blog post about jist a while back, which i think is awesome. i totally agree that javascript is deceptively named, and thus misused. i actually used to hate it when i didn't know how to use it properly. however, after learning some lisp and more about programming in general, its nothing short of a pleasure to program in javascript.