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Hah this is awesome. Not only from a coding perspective, but from one artist to another - congrats. I really enjoyed that comic about Lisp fleet. Comic also exp
by Keyframe 16y ago
Hah this is awesome. Not only from a coding perspective, but from one artist to another - congrats. I really enjoyed that comic about Lisp fleet. Comic also exposes one nasty thing about it - there is no single implementation that has all of the fleet's features. Do you recommend some specific implementation to go with your book? Anyways, first check that comes in November and I'm buying. Congrats on your project once again, really looks like something special!
- drcode 16y agoI think Common Lisp, Scheme, and Clojure each have a lot to offer. I wish there was one perfect Lisp :)
- mahmud 16y agoI think it was Appel who had a funny proof for the non-existence of the Perfect Compiler, it can be applied to Lisp quite easily. FWIW, the proof used the halting problem and went like this. Assume there is a an unoptimized program that, when ran, would go through a series of motions but ultimately halt without any useful output or side-effect. Assume there existed a perfect compiler, PC; that compiler would need to be sufficiently smart enough to translate the problem to a single HALT instruction (or "Label X: goto X".) But since the halting of programs can not be proven analytically, it stands to reason that PC does not exist.
- drcode 16y agoI should mention that the book primarily uses Common Lisp.