Slightly off-topic, but what would be a good book to learn guile (scheme, lisp) for someone with solid programming background (C, ruby, php, golang but no lisp at all)? I always wanted to give it a try but not sure where to start.
SICP is great at teaching concepts and testing your knowledge, but it lacks an important part that is not quite obvious at first: Interactive programming AKA how to actually use a Lisp.
I recommend you watch some videos of people using an IDE/Emacs or some text editor with sufficient support like VSCode to write Lisp code interactively. How they build a program while it is running. But also doing mechanical things like navigation and structural editing.
Step 1 is the basic mechanics of that, leveraging an integrated REPL and language constructs. Step 2 is to make this productive and fluent, by using workflows, tricks and tools that let you introspect what is there, manage program state, move things around effectively etc. Step 3 is then to go beyond and not just write the program in a direct fashion, but experiment, generate data, visualizations, interactive debugging etc.
Could you please provide a link to some example videos you recommend? Greatly appreciated!
It's the most beginner-friendly Common Lisp textbook but it might be worth it even for a seasoned programmer of other languages just for how nicely it explains lisp-specific concepts and constructs.
The first edition is available for free: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/