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I would kill for the opportunity to work on Lisp full time (well, maybe not kill, but you get the level of motivation). The reason for it is in your quote - ex
by d3ckard 4y ago
I would kill for the opportunity to work on Lisp full time (well, maybe not kill, but you get the level of motivation).
The reason for it is in your quote - extremely regular syntax. No operators, no precedence, no special syntax forms - just a bunch of lists with symbols. I didn't realise how important it is until I started writing macros in Elixir and realised they are not quite "native", even if really powerful.
Lisp will be back, I feel certain of it.
- ludston 4y agoYou can use reader macros to add any operators or special forms you want to Common Lisp. Things can get especially crazy if you use a reader-macro to override '(