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> But what are they doing fast? Solving programming challenges. Maybe this sounds broader than I intended. By "programming challenges" I literally mean Advent
by nemo1618 6y ago
> But what are they doing fast?
Solving programming challenges. Maybe this sounds broader than I intended. By "programming challenges" I literally mean Advent of Code, HackerRank, etc. This is by no means a general-purpose language!
I guess in your terms, the "problem one wants to solve quickly" is "outputting the answer that will be accepted as correct by the programming challenge website."
- eyelidlessness 6y agoOh my goodness, I seriously misunderstood your intent! Yes that’s a perfectly reasonable focus. I don’t know why I breezed past AoC. Sorry for the confusion!
- nemo1618 6y agoHaha, that's on me -- I probably should have written "competitive programming" in there somewhere. Cheers!
- eyelidlessness 6y agoFWIW I’m very curious what you’ve come up with. I’m imagining based on your Python commentary it’s not a lisp, but that’s probably where I’d start for something like this.
- nemo1618 6y agoCurrently it's more of a fusion between Haskell and bash. I've played with Lisp a lot, but never anything serious; I can imagine that Lisp syntax, with appropriate hotkeys, would make for some speedy navigation/refactoring, though!
- dunefox 6y agoImo, good REPL integration is the thing to take from Lisp, not necessarily the syntax (although I'm a fan of it). See CL with SLIME.