"... Even though in Computer Science terms Lisp is an ancient language, few people to date figured out how to teach it well enough to make it accessible."
Don't know why that is, to me Lisp came naturally reading Winston's book Lisp.
I guess the thing is to just start playing with it, try out examples. Don't worry about meta-circularity until later, if ever. Don't read about it do it.
And syntax even though it may look like a forest of parenthesis it is worth emphasizing that actually it makes the syntax extremely simple and universal since there are very few keywords if any.
Don't know why that is, to me Lisp came naturally reading Winston's book Lisp.
I guess the thing is to just start playing with it, try out examples. Don't worry about meta-circularity until later, if ever. Don't read about it do it.
And syntax even though it may look like a forest of parenthesis it is worth emphasizing that actually it makes the syntax extremely simple and universal since there are very few keywords if any.