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Who is endlessly confused? Who suspects that the author of a neat lisp editor plugin has never written a non-trivial line of Common Lisp, Clojure, or Scheme? Wh
by oconnore 11y ago
Who is endlessly confused? Who suspects that the author of a neat lisp editor plugin has never written a non-trivial line of Common Lisp, Clojure, or Scheme? What are the chances that people in either category are also curious and excited to experiment with novel editing techniques?
- lispm 11y ago> Who is endlessly confused? Everyone who reads or hears this sentence. I've heard 'everything is a list' a zillion times already. It's just wrong. In every way.
- jsprogrammer 11y agoA LISP program is a list of characters.
- pavelludiq 11y agoIf we're going to be super pedantic, the Common Lisp spec actually defines code as: "code n. 1. Trad. any representation of actions to be performed, whether conceptual or as an actual object, such as forms, lambda expressions, objects of type function, text in a source file, or instruction sequences in a compiled file. This is a generic term; the specific nature of the representation depends on its context. " http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/26_glo_c.htm#code http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/26_glo...
- lispm 11y agoActually not. A Lisp program is data. The Lisp system does not care if it comes from a text file or if it is constructed as data by a program: (list '+ '1 '2) constructs a program which can be evaluated.
- jsprogrammer 11y agoI have thought about this response a bit, but, all I see here are more lists of characters.
- lispm 11y agoUse Lisp and you will see.