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I’m a long time lisper. Learned Haskell ... a couple of times now. It’s interesting and in some cases fun and elegant. But I just kept coming back to Lisp for a
by abrax3141 4y ago
I’m a long time lisper. Learned Haskell ... a couple of times now. It’s interesting and in some cases fun and elegant. But I just kept coming back to Lisp for actual work. Lisp just seems to be at the sweet spot between functional, extensible, and work-a-day, and the parens just make the refactoring experience so fluid that it’s like a drug. (Edit: I want to learn clojure, which should be easy from Lisp. I’ve avoided it bcs the JVM makes me nauseous. But I’m told by my cj-loving ex-lisp hacker friends that you don’t need the JVM. So maybe I’ll try again.)
- massysett 4y agoWhat lisp do you use?
- abrax3141 4y agoPrimarily SBCL.
- dsimmons 4y agoClojure is hands-down the best programming language I've used. That said, I'm still holding out hope that it'll be hosted on top of something other than the JVM -- frankly, the JVM keeps me from using it more than I otherwise would.
- epgui 4y agoI really love Haskell but I can’t help but think it would be a better language if it was built in s-expressions.