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Lisphp: A Lisp Dialect Written in PHP
- big_lou 13y agoThis is the worst thing that ever happened
- matthudson 13y ago>"This is the worst thing that ever happened" Self-referential comments are not encouraged on HN. Instead of criticizing your own comment, consider saying something constructive or interesting about the OP.
- agumonkey 13y agoso HN comments aren't hoisted ?
- vezzy-fnord 13y agoI don't know man, I'd rather see stuff like this than the umpteenth JavaScript project.
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- moreentropy 13y agoBut why?
- ushi 13y ago>> It was created to be embedded in web services or to be distributed within web applications.
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- agumonkey 13y agoalso : http://scriptor.github.io/pharen/ http://scriptor.github.io/pharen/
- blt 13y agoI just wrote a toy lisp interpreter in C++. It's kind of amazing how easy it is to interpret lisp. Hard part is writing the GC and tail call optimization. Not trying to diminish the post at all, I just think Lisp is a cool language :)
- janogonzalez 13y agono link to the repo :(
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- clienthunter 13y agoA genuine question which looks like hate but isn't: why are people still innovating on PHP? I can understand why it may still be in use, but why nurture the ecosystem? The only people I know that care for PHP enough to be into this kind of thing are people who have never written anything but PHP, and that's a small number of people...and the number of those competent enough to write a LISP in PHP is precisely nil. Only my experiences, sure, but I'm sure I'm not that off the mark.
- nonchalance 13y ago> the number of those competent enough to write a LISP in PHP is precisely nil. There are many people competent enough to write a lisp in PHP, but most are working for companies that still work with PHP (of which there are many, including some pretty high-profile companies)
- krapp 13y agoWhy not?
- clienthunter 13y agoPersonally? Because I'm not a sadist?
- bananashake 13y agoIt's a fine language with various pros and cons versus ruby/perl/python/lisp/clojure/java/c/go/javascript etc. I can imagine many handy reasons to have a lisp interpreter in PHP. Also, for your information, I've written code in many languages. I've written thousands of lines in lisp. Typically, if I'm aggravated at a project, it's because of the project itself, and not the language. It's odd to me when people find the language to be so significant for a language that is fairly mature.
- ivanhoe 13y agoThis might also sound like hate (and it isn't, I'm really curious), but how much work (and what kind) did you actually do in php, before you realized that it's not worthy and should be killed off?
- drakaal 13y agoSomeone took my favorite language theoretically, (meaning I love everything about it but I don't get to use it much) and combined it with my least favorite language theoretically (meaning a language I am forced to use a lot, so I'm really good at it but feel dirty every time I use it). Should I feel good or bad?
- krapp 13y agoI don't know how you should feel but I find it hilarious.
- bananashake 13y agoNow you can put lisp code in your PHP. Be sure to test this out with your coworkers or you might get tar'ed and gzip'ed.
- kalleboo 13y agoIt's so easy to troll HN - just mention PHP
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- Vektorweg 13y agoclassic http://xkcd.com/297/ http://xkcd.com/297/
- justinhj 13y agothis was posted 3 years ago as well. It's interesting to compare the comments. https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=Lisphp https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=Lisphp