If you are already comfortable with Python, then there are a few reasons you might want to learn Lisp. I'll cite a few practical reasons, but avoid the most commonly given ones:
You enjoy learning new programming languages, especially if they are very different from the ones you already know. You aren't afraid of learning entirely new programming paradigms, disciplines, and idioms. (This is me FWIW.)
You want to participate in or use an existing project in Lisp, such as the one linked in the OP, or Emacs, or many others.
You know of specific career opportunities which require Lisp experience.
Those are the compelling practical reasons I can think of off the top of my head. If you have other reasons ... I dunno ... maybe share them?
You're probably trolling, but Common Lisp ecosystem is lagging behind the one of Python. Also hard to tell if X is a 'good language to pick up' unless you tell what do you want to write in it.
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2 u/PolishPandaBear 22 Dec 2016 01:48
Is lisp a good language to pick up? Any advantages over python?
1 u/hereonachair 22 Dec 2016 01:55
No, other than some theoretical concepts.
3 u/vaginitis20161116 [OP] 22 Dec 2016 02:01
If you are already comfortable with Python, then there are a few reasons you might want to learn Lisp. I'll cite a few practical reasons, but avoid the most commonly given ones:
Those are the compelling practical reasons I can think of off the top of my head. If you have other reasons ... I dunno ... maybe share them?
1 u/Atarian 22 Dec 2016 05:21
It's a compiled,fully functional language that's great if you have to write a program without fully understanding the problem.
It's dead easy to write a domain specific language in it too, if that's what you need to do.
-1 u/real_arthrp 23 Dec 2016 21:21
You're probably trolling, but Common Lisp ecosystem is lagging behind the one of Python. Also hard to tell if X is a 'good language to pick up' unless you tell what do you want to write in it.