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Common Lisp has more in common with Python and Ruby than Haskell. Perhaps you should study some of these languages before encouraging other people to.
by Ralith 14y ago
Common Lisp has more in common with Python and Ruby than Haskell. Perhaps you should study some of these languages before encouraging other people to.
- troels 14y agoArguably, so does Scheme. My impression of Ruby is that it's sort of a bastard of Perl and Scheme.
- Ralith 14y agoI'm a heavy Common Lisp user, but I'm only casually familiar with Scheme, so I opted to leave deconstruction of that aspect to others--such as yourself!
- taybin 14y agoMore like Perl and SmallTalk.
- tsm 14y agoScheme is a bit more biased in favor of functional techniques though. Recursion (in the vast majority of cases CLers will just use (loop) instead of recursing), continuations...