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by kbp 9y ago
> Is this typical to construct HTML in Lisp? This feels incredibly verbose and error prone, not to mention confusing and hard to grok. Good luck having a designer mockup/write HTML. Do you mean that (:td :colspan "2" &quot
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by kbp 9y ago
> I realise it's actually a lot closer to Smalltalk than to Lisp -- you have a built in editor, you build memory images that you constantly work with, all the code is decompilable so you can refactor easily, etc, etc Lisps often pro
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Try MTS: Exploring the Michigan Terminal System(try-mts.com)
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by kbp 9y ago
> AList's used as a map. Probably the worst possible structure for representing a map. They're more flexible than hash tables and often faster; what makes them so awful? They both have trade-offs that make them better and worse
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by kbp 9y ago
> > Perhaps you had problems with the concepts of Lisp packages (namespaces)? > Rather unlikely. The namespaces are pretty easy to understand conceptually, and their interface is pretty minimal. Packages can definitely give beginne
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by kbp 9y ago
It's especially nicer in Ruby (which got it from Perl) where you can use whatever delimiters you like for regexes, with /abc/, %r"abc", %r{abc}, %r#abc# and so on all being equivalent, so you can just about always p
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by kbp 9y ago
But when most of the commonly used "regular expression" libraries aren't regular, I think if you really mean solving something with only regular expressions, you should probably specify that explicitly. The term's been
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by kbp 9y ago
As well, dynamic typing is much less of an issue in Lisp than it is in most other dynamic languages because the debugging and error handling features are really that good; they pick up most of the slack that the less-present type system cre
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Tagged Pointer Strings (2015)(mikeash.com)
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Common Lisp the Language – Conditions (1990)(cs.cmu.edu)
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Safe and Secure Software: An Invitation to Ada 2012 (2015) [pdf](adacore.com)
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by kbp 9y ago
> Clojure is not based on CONSes but you have CAR and CDR they are first and rest. CAR and CDR are operations on conses, so you can't have them without conses; that's like having sqrt without numbers. Lisp has FIRST and REST fo
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by kbp 9y ago
> Of these five, clojure only has two (atom and eq) You can't have atom without conses (well, it would just be (lambda (x) t)); which Clojure function are you thinking of?
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by kbp 9y ago
> ASDF appears to have been deprecated in favor of Quicklisp No, ASDF and Quicklisp do different things. ASDF handles compiling and loading systems, whereas Quicklisp handles downloading systems and their dependencies. ASDF is kind of li
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by kbp 9y ago
> Haskell functions are not Lisp functions. Lisp functions take a list of arguments, so `apply` should apply to a list of argument. I understand how currying works, thanks, but that doesn't change the fact that $ is not equivalent t
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by kbp 9y ago
> The closest thing to MacLisp today is actually Common Lisp I think you could make the argument that Emacs Lisp is as close. Emacs Lisp has some major similarities with Maclisp that CL doesn't share (like in variable scoping and ob
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by kbp 9y ago
> overzealous pedantry Some people might consider it pedantic to insist to someone who was confused by a choice of wording, and offered a less potentially confusing alternative, that actually it's fine because it's technically
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by kbp 9y ago
Sorry, I just edited in a second quote to my previous comment that addresses that part of your point.
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by kbp 9y ago
> The person who corrected the original commenter seems to recognized that "he" was being used in a gender-neutral way and even offered the use of "they" Their first suggestion was to use the correct gender-specific p
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by kbp 9y ago
> Even if you accidentally parsed "he" as referring to the male gender at first, the context surrounding the comment would quickly clarify that misunderstanding and reveal that the comment was written in a gender-neutral form.
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by kbp 9y ago
I think your version of "fun" is my version of "proper abstraction and factoring".
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by kbp 9y ago
> The zip family has more names than just `map`, but boilerplate? You have to select the right name for your code but you don't have to select more names. Well, you have to select one of the zip functions in addition to map. Those a
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by kbp 9y ago
> Clojure is a Lisp. One of the distinctive things about Lisp is that it has dialects. When one of those dialects is completely source-incompatible with every other dialect (the rest of them share non-trivial programs freely), and doesn&
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by kbp 9y ago
> Regarding the loop: that's exactly what I described, you just move lines and fix the indentation. The experience you get with Paredit is not the same experience you get with C and vi, because you have to be concerned with things a
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by kbp 9y ago
> I see no reason what you just gave isnt isomorphic to > sum(1,2,sum(3,4)) > Which is not "code as data" Says who? In Prolog it would be. Whether or not some syntax is a data structure literal depends entirely on the
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by kbp 9y ago
Sure there is. Imagine you had this function: int f(void) { int x = 1; return x * 2; } Then pretend that later you wanted to call f and provide your own value of x for it to transform, but you realise that f doe
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by kbp 9y ago
> I kept reading places that lisp macros and c macros were completely distinct, which seems untrue after a couple years of trying clojure. They're similar in that they're both compile-time functions that generate code, but they
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by kbp 9y ago
> I don't disagree that if all you have is parens, then you want something like paredit. But for a C programmer there is no need for such a thing. If that's a good selection of tools for editing code, then why would Lisp progra
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by kbp 9y ago
> The biggest practical improvement that I've seen was Clojure notation that expands the number of data literals to include vectors, maps, and sets. Common Lisp has literal syntax for vectors (and it wasn't the first Lisp to).
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by kbp 9y ago
In ReasonML, most of your code is just Reason (which is just OCaml), but you can easily provide type declarations and use Javascript code in a typesafe way, or you can just drop to raw JS at any point in a Reason file.

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