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Ha - that neat little music video is good marketing. I'm half tempted to try the book based on that. The only thing really stopping me is that I hate dynamical

Ha - that neat little music video is good marketing. I'm half tempted to try the book based on that. The only thing really stopping me is that I hate dynamically typed languages, but still I wonder if I shouldn't try Lisp just to "complete my education".

vindarel 5y ago
Be aware that SBCL does pretty good compile-time type checking. It helps a lot during dev. And there's the new https://github.com/coalton-lang/coalton https://github.com/coalton-lang/coalton to have like Haskell atop CL.
- rurban 5y ago
  Lisp also has run-time type checking. In contrary to statically compiled languages, lisp doesn't throw away it's types at run-time, and is always type-safe.
  - eklavya 5y ago
    But one of the big advantage of typed languages is that you CAN throw away that information and still be safe (proven by compiler). You don't have to pay for them at runtime.
    - jhgb 5y ago
      That's exactly what SBCL does, for example.