Dynamic language

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Thursday, 15 March 2012 at 07:09:39 UTC, so wrote:
> If so Lisp will be my first choice.

I just talked about D because D rox, but if you are doing
it for education, Lisp is a good choice because it is fairly
unique.

For real jobs, I'd go with D or maybe Javascript if I wanted
scripting. (Javascript isn't a great language, but it is good
enough, well supported, and popular; people can pick it up
and go pretty easily. I've previously used Lisp for scripting -
you can make a Lisp interpreter in ~1,000 lines of code - but
JS has decent interpreters out there too.)


But for education, Lisp's uniqueness is a good thing -
experiencing the new syntax and playing with the macros
is a good way to learn things you might have not looked
at otherwise.


So I'll second Lisp if you don't want to play with D.