Folks:
For those of you still wondering why you should learn Lisp, here is a talk that should be of interest
rao
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LISP is worth learning for a different reason — the
profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get
it. That experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of
your days, even if you never actually use LISP itself a lot.
--Eric Raymond
http://catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
It will be in 10/26 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. BYENG 210
Speaker: Wes Dyer, Microsoft
C# 3.0: Another reason why functional programming matters
Recently, there has been renewed interest in adopting language features pioneered by functional languages into mainstream language. C# is an interesting example of an object-oriented language that has adopted functional features such as iterators, lambdas, and the ability to quote expressions. These features form the basis of LINQ which is a powerful language integrated querying model designed to query data from many domains with one medium.