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Author here. AMA.
by lisper 4y ago
Author here. AMA.
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- SOLAR_FIELDS 4y agoHow do you feel about Lisp in 2023 compared to your opinions as expressed in the article? How do you feel about Clojure? I’m a seasoned software engineer in 2023 that has worked up and down the stack that has always wanted to get into Lisp. What’s the 2023 way to do it?
- lisper 4y ago> How do you feel about Lisp in 2023 compared to your opinions as expressed in the article? I feel pretty much the same way today as I did then. > How do you feel about Clojure? I've never used but, but from what I've read it looks pretty spiffy. > I’m a seasoned software engineer in 2023 that has worked up and down the stack that has always wanted to get into Lisp. What’s the 2023 way to do it? Just do it. There are a zillion Lisps to choose from and a zillion tutorials and books, just pick one and start writing (or, even better, reading) some code. My personal favorite is Clozure Common Lisp on a Mac. For a starter text, PG's and PN's (Peter Norvig) books are pretty good. But nothing beats just picking a little project and building something.
- adastra22 4y agoHave you done more with Lisp since then? (Your username suggests so)
- lisper 4y agoYes, a lot. In fact, for the last 5-6 years I have been working to help develop and maintain a tool for VLSI chip design written in Common Lisp. (Unfortunately, the company that built it was recently acquired by a large publicly traded corporation, and they have decided to kill the project. Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.) I have also done a lot of personal coding in CL. Most recently I wrote a spam filter that I use in production on my personal mail server.
- noobermin 4y agoWhat do you think about clojure? It is lisp but runs on the jvm of course, so it kind of does the thing you like (being lisp) but does the thing you don't like (enable replacement by using the jvm)
- lisper 4y agoI've never tried Clojure but from what I've read it seems pretty spiffy.
- marai2 4y agoSince this essay cycles here on HN perennially and inevitably people are curious about how your views about lisp, or other languages have changed, you might want to have a follow up page that you forever keep on updating as your views change? Maybe linked from the original article? Such as: Year 2033 - lisp is still a great language for $xyz Year 2043 - I was wrong, I should have used COBOL all along, how was I so blind?