jgrant27

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Do you really know Lisp ?(jng.imagine27.com)
2 points by jgrant27 17y ago|1 comments
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by jgrant27 17y ago
No. The statement simply means that experience is important. The same holds for any language that you use.
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by jgrant27 17y ago
(defun foo (x) (declare (type list x)) (car x))
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by jgrant27 17y ago
It seems that you have a beef with a particular(or multiple) Common Lisp libraries. Fair enough. However, I never said that you should write every line of code in your app from scratch. I did say that you should OWN the decisions for YOUR a
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by jgrant27 17y ago
Your notion of 'type-correctness' seems fairly static and you don't know Common Lisp either. A type hint in Common Lisp is the same as a type declaration. Common Lisp just let's you declare the types optionally. If you declare a type for a
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by jgrant27 17y ago
There is no guessing. You get to answer that question for yourself based on the context of your application. Many Lisps provide as much(or as little) type checking that you might want in your application.
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by jgrant27 17y ago
There's no need to 'emulate' anything 'via code-walking' and 'heuristics' when writing Lisp macros. This is a personal use case of your own. If you know how to write Lisp macros(i.e. experience) then they will be correct. Not all Lisp macro
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by jgrant27 17y ago
They are not equivalent. In Lisp there is no distinction between the syntax and the AST. In Haskell the AST is modeled using explicit data types. http://www.haskell.org/bz/thdoc.htm : "In Template Haskell, ordinary algebraic data types re
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by jgrant27 17y ago
You simply do not know Lisp. Lisp is a term to describe different dialects in a family of languages. For example : Common Lisp is a multi-paradigm Lisp that supports dynamic typing AND static typing. Haskell has NO equivalent to Common Lisp
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by jgrant27 17y ago
The very first code snippet is NOT valid Java and yet the author claims decades of programming experience (about page). He also seems to have very recently discovered the side-effects of imperative programming.
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by jgrant27 17y ago
Using lists instead of vectors brings the Clojure version down to around 10X the speed of the CL code. user=> (#'i27.palindromes/big-test) 1000 X ' amanaplanacanalpanama ' fast : "Elapsed time: 183.748 msecs"
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Palindromes (Clojure vs. Common Lisp)(jng.imagine27.com)
40 points by jgrant27 17y ago|24 comments
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"V" for the 00s(latimes.com)
2 points by jgrant27 17y ago|0 comments
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by jgrant27 17y ago
Maybe those points(which glaringly describe benefits) are no substitute for competency & experience. This sounds more like entitled mediocrity from the author 'privileged' enough to have attended one of these schools. I've known enough
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by jgrant27 17y ago
There does seem to be some dislike for recursion versus iteration in his writing. He doesn't seem to be bagging primarily on recursion in languages, just that he thinks TCO should possibly be explicit. Maybe there is something to that argum
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Circular dependencies (Clojure and Java)
3 points by jgrant27 17y ago|1 comments
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The Half-Life of Knowledge(jng.imagine27.com)
4 points by jgrant27 17y ago|0 comments
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by jgrant27 17y ago
http://jng.imagine27.com/articles/2008-05-01-000046_work-eth...
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by jgrant27 17y ago
This gave me a good laugh ! These same people also tend to bring this mind set with them to wherever it is they end up working. They seem to have a huge need to "kick others in the balls repeatedly" to feel better than others. Have you eve
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by jgrant27 17y ago
That metric has long been flawed.
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by jgrant27 17y ago
Grades are a sign of intelligence ? This could simply be a student's willingness to parrot whatever answers or theory a teacher would like to hear. Ever notice that often when a student outdoes his teacher or his teacher's favorite 'pets' t
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by jgrant27 17y ago
Canada is a great country too. I'm sure that if you asked many people who have jumped through all the hoops like a circus animal to stay in the US that a significant percentage of them would tell you that it just wasn't worth it in the end.
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by jgrant27 17y ago
> socialist countries restrict the rewards to the extremely talented, whereas America does no such thing (at a cost to the bottom half of its bell curve). This is just not the common case. Generally speaking, the US does give disproport
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A Quine in Clojure(jng.imagine27.com)
19 points by jgrant27 17y ago|2 comments
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Magic 090909 Geometry(jng.imagine27.com)
2 points by jgrant27 17y ago|0 comments
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Another slice of π ? (generating the digits of π in Common Lisp & Haskell)(jng.imagine27.com)
3 points by jgrant27 17y ago|1 comments
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Happy PI approximation day (in Common Lisp) (jng.imagine27.com)
4 points by jgrant27 17y ago|1 comments
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Chain and the Gang / The Psychic Soviet(jng.imagine27.com)
2 points by jgrant27 17y ago|0 comments
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Beautifully cosmic atomic sounds ('God is an Astronaut')(jng.imagine27.com)
3 points by jgrant27 17y ago|0 comments
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by jgrant27 17y ago
Awful news, another great mind and soul has left us ...

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