3 ms·
Apart from being contemporaneous they have little in common. Lisp is functional, Smalltalk is object oriented.
by ErikCorry 4y ago
Apart from being contemporaneous they have little in common. Lisp is functional, Smalltalk is object oriented.
- PaulHoule 4y agoBoth are dynamically type and have garbage collection. Both have lambdas.
- Qem 4y agoBoth run in the same context they are written in. See https://medium.com/smalltalk-talk/lisp-smalltalk-and-the-power-of-symmetry-8bd96aaa0c0c https://medium.com/smalltalk-talk/lisp-smalltalk-and-the-pow... Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14333157 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14333157
- fiddlerwoaroof 4y agoCommon Lisp is not a functional language. If anything, it’s object oriented. Generally speaking, lisps have always been multi-paradigm languages because macros let them absorb nearly any paradigm you can think of.