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by stefano 17y ago
That could be said for any language. It's just that the first language someone usually learns borrows more from algol than from lisp. This leads to the idea that Python/Ruby/PHP/Javascript are easier to learn than Clojure/Common Lisp/Scheme
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by stefano 17y ago
You can. You have two different ways of doing it: the first is to write your own low level opcodes, the other, and I think more powerful, is through PMCs. A PMC (Parrot Magic Cookie) is a basic type of your language (e.g. an Integer, a Char
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by stefano 17y ago
"Although I was unable to use LISP in any production code" Does he refer to LISP 1.5?
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by stefano 17y ago
When talking about dynamic languages speed, people tend to take into account only ruby, python, perl and javascript. Common Lisp is at least as dynamic as those, and compiles to fast binary code. Comparing V8 to Ruby is easy. Try comparing
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by stefano 17y ago
C++ templates are similar to macros: they run at compile time to generate code, but they're a lot harder to use.
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by stefano 17y ago
Isn't this similar to dynamic scope?
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by stefano 17y ago
It is very common in Italian too ("Deformazione professionale").
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by stefano 17y ago
> As a result, the five million lines of Mathematica code that make up Wolfram|Alpha are equivalent to many tens of millions of lines of code in a lower-level language like C, Java, or Python. Calling Python a "lower level language" see
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by stefano 17y ago
The last message was posted about one month after the first post.
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by stefano 17y ago
Currently the last release of Arc is one year old. The fork (Anarki) has had more visible development, although it has slowed down after october 2008. You can see the full history here: http://github.com/nex3/arc/commits/master/ . There h
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by stefano 17y ago
For javascript: http://www.jslint.com/
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by stefano 18y ago
Have a look at http://lispforum.com There are also many open source projects you could help (with code and/or documentation) here: http://common-lisp.net/projects.shtml
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by stefano 18y ago
One big difference is that developing a language for the JVM is not an easy task. Sure, it is easier than developing a language from scratch, but it took, if i remember right, 3 years for Clojure to reach its actual quality. Writing a langu
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by stefano 18y ago
Yes. It also supports features beyond the Arc "standard".
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by stefano 18y ago
I've written a small tutorial about cells: http://github.com/stefano/cells-doc/tree/master
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by stefano 18y ago
WxCL is quite old and doesn't seem to be maintained. A better GUI library for CL is cells-gtk. It also offers a more declarative approach compared with mainstream GUI toolkits.
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by stefano 18y ago
I agree that it's not a problem, but for newcomers all that parenthesis accumulation is quite problematic. I speak out of my personal experience: I've abandoned lisp even before learning something about macros because I couln't stand the pa
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by stefano 18y ago
Are you still working on Arc? You've been absent from the Arc forum for a long time...