A Friendly Introduction to Racket – geometridae
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11 Aug, 2026 "Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it." — Eric S. Raymond Welcome. Today you'll learn a language from one of programming's oldest and most unusual families. A language where code is data, where parentheses are pure structure, and where programs can write programs. By the end of this tutorial, you'll have written your own syntax. A bit of history Lisp was born in 1958, invented by John McCarthy at MIT. For context: it's the second-oldest high-level language still in use (only Fortran, from 1957, beats it by a…
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