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But why would you use lisp? I don't get it. No API returns data in a list format.
by cocktailpeanuts 10y ago
But why would you use lisp? I don't get it. No API returns data in a list format.
- bpicolo 10y agoLisps aren't limited to lists as data types, you can have anything you want. Lisp interpreters tend to be dead simple to implement.
- aaron-santos 10y agoEDN (s-expressions + Clojure's reader)[1] got a lot of attention when it was announced. It looks like it's garnered some use [2]. I was hoping to find a registered mime type "application/s-expr", but there are some uses out in the wild[3]. 1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4487462 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4487462 2 - https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22application%2Fedn%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22application%2F... 3 - https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22application%2Fs-expr%22&type=Code&ref=searchresults https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22application%2F...