C is like the latin of computer languages, whereas Lisp is that odd african language with the clicking noises that we keep hearing is going to go extinct.
You can hardly avoid being exposed to C while it is completely possible to live a long and productive life as a programmer without ever having to write a single line of Lisp -- let alone try to understand what a Lisp program is doing.
Much the same goes for C++ although I would liken C++ more to an Orc -- a hideously deformed and tortured version of C.
The point being that Lisp is a marginal language. There are few practitioners, few user-facing systems and generally not much talk about it. Every now and then it comes up in conversation when someone wants to appear sophisticated (sort of when young people try to give the impression that they've read some old gasbag like Nietsche), but for the most part it is that fuzzily remembered dead-end branch on the family tree of languages. The branch that ran off and joined the Amish or something along those lines.
There doesn't need to be a download link for C or C++ since they are not marginal languages.
Not the same thing.
C is like the latin of computer languages, whereas Lisp is that odd african language with the clicking noises that we keep hearing is going to go extinct.
You can hardly avoid being exposed to C while it is completely possible to live a long and productive life as a programmer without ever having to write a single line of Lisp -- let alone try to understand what a Lisp program is doing.
Much the same goes for C++ although I would liken C++ more to an Orc -- a hideously deformed and tortured version of C.
The point being that Lisp is a marginal language. There are few practitioners, few user-facing systems and generally not much talk about it. Every now and then it comes up in conversation when someone wants to appear sophisticated (sort of when young people try to give the impression that they've read some old gasbag like Nietsche), but for the most part it is that fuzzily remembered dead-end branch on the family tree of languages. The branch that ran off and joined the Amish or something along those lines.
There doesn't need to be a download link for C or C++ since they are not marginal languages.