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Lisp as the Maxwell's Equations of Software (2012)
- rzzzwilson 4mo agoA note from the article says: I suggest Python 2.7 for this code No, just no. Use a later version of python 3. The article is 24 years old.
- __patchbit__ 4mo agoThe AI says Gerbil Scheme is part of the Lisp family and stronger but Python 3 is not.
- rzzzwilson 4mo agoPython 3 is not ... what?
- fragmede 4mo agopart of the lisp family
- rzzzwilson 4mo agoI don't see how my comment about using python 3 rather than the obsolete python 2 has anything to do with Lisp.
- Rochus 4mo agoLisp made the compiler’s internal tree representation directly writable by programmers. That is powerful, but it is not the same as giving programmers the best notation for expressing and maintaining large systems. The tiny self-interpreter is a fine pedagogical artifact, but calling it software’s Maxwell equations oversells it. S-expressions are a convenient printable AST: lists whose meaning is supplied largely by the head symbol and argument positions. Excellent for macros and language experimentation; not necessarily a good human-level notation for large programs. A decent surface syntax provides useful "molecular" structure rather than exposing the "atoms".
- raymond_goo 4mo agoI wrote an always solvable Yukon solitaire game (no ads, no sign up). https://solitairle.com https://solitairle.com The solver is written in Lisp and then I tried one in Rust. Great fun in both languages, but the Rust one is faster :-)
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