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0 pointsmsla2y ago0 comments

Lisp is pretty normal if you're accustomed to, like, Python: It's a GC'd procedural language.

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kleiba2y ago· 5 in thread

Haha, nice one! :-)

(can only assume you're joking)

Pxtl2y ago

Since every other language now has higher order functions and lexical closures and things like that Lisp isn't as special as it used to be. Now it's mostly just a really ugly version of those languages but with a weird emphasis on recursion and a very fancy macro facility.

I find I can move between dynamic languages and Scheme pretty easily.

cultofmetatron2y ago

as someone who writes elixir all day, I really love what lisp is but I feel lisp's major weakness is that it makes everythign unergonomic in order to make macros very ergonomic. You will never find another language in which writing macros is easier. the problem is it comes at the cost of doing everything else a bit of a pain in the ass.

I love elixir because it feels like the syntax clojure would have if it had a syntax imho.

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satvikpendem2y ago

Lisp is homoiconic which most other languages are not. This makes it useful for certain applications over others.

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wbl2y ago

Some jokes are serious some serious statements are jokes. Perlis's epigrams are one example.

quchen2y ago

Inhad to look up what Perlins' (!) Epigrams are. Worth a read!

https://iiif.library.cmu.edu/file/Simon_box00075_fld05959_bd...

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