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to Nhanh. Emacs, Slime and Common Lisp is something that I would give an exception to. The major productivity I give to that combo is the ability to change th
by mikerichards 11y ago
to Nhanh.
Emacs, Slime and Common Lisp is something that I would give an exception to. The major productivity I give to that combo is the ability to change the code on the fly while debugging, especially Common Lisp's continue from exception mechanism.
Smalltalk environments have had this ability forever. I just imagine how much more productive I could be if in Visual Studio I could edit-n-continue on everything...even if my code wasn't in a successful compilation state.
Java has this and Jrebel has this on steroids, but I want to be able to edit-n-continue even if my compilation state is broken. Just throw an exception when it fails because of bad state.
- tomjen3 11y agoCommon Lisps exception mechanism is indeed out of this world, but that isn't something that has been implemented in any other language that I know of (not even Clojure) and you have to pay a fortune to get a CL system that works cross-platform with things like threading or a FI that allows lisp callbacks from C code. Java has supported both since forever (and its java.util.concurrent namespace means any old Java programmer has access to all sorts of really advanced non-blocking data structures, including a ConcurrentSkipListMap and an AtomicInteger) and for most people, for almost all tasks, that makes Java better. And for Java you need an IDE.
- lispm 11y ago> pay a fortune to get a CL system that works cross-platform with things like threading or a FI that allows lisp callbacks from C code like 'zero'. ;-) Use Clozure CL: http://ccl.clozure.com http://ccl.clozure.com > Clozure CL also provides a mechanism for defining callbacks: lisp functions which can be called from foreign code. > Clozure CL provides facilities which enable multiple threads of execution Runs on Linux / Windows / Mac OS X and others.