New Common Lisp website

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Post by ejbs2 » Sat, May 14, 2016, 11:02 AM UTC

Re: New Common Lisp website

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Post by protomyth » Sat, May 14, 2016, 4:45 PM UTC

Click specification: "We're currently working on parsing the TeX sources of the specification to generate a more modern version of the CLHS.

This might take a while."

Yeah, that's probably not the message you want to send after all the virtues (e.g. speed) listed on the first page.

Re: New Common Lisp website

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Post by fadelakin » Sat, May 14, 2016, 4:46 PM UTC

Can someone explain to me the main differences between a language like Common Lisp and Haskell?

I'm planning on learning on a purely functional language this year and I've narrowed it down to Haskell and CL but I don't know which to pick. Haskell has sort of been winning due to my friends knowing it and using it.

If you have any resources as well, please let me know. I don't know if this is the right place to post this.

Re: New Common Lisp website

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Post by gaius » Sat, May 14, 2016, 4:50 PM UTC

fadelakin wrote: post #3

Can someone explain to me the main differences between a language like Common Lisp and Haskell? I'm planning on learning on a purely functional language this year and I've narrowed it down to Haskell and CL but I don't know which to pick. Haskell has sort of been winning due to my friends knowing it and using it. If you have any resources as well, please let me know. I don't know if this is the right place to post th…

Go with your friends. That will make 100x the difference that any technical difference does. Same with any language really.

Re: New Common Lisp website

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Post by gaius » Sat, May 14, 2016, 4:53 PM UTC

Here is PG's note on ITA software from 2001 http://www.paulgraham.com/carl.html

It's all good stuff but I would wonder about any language community that hadn't gotten any other big hitters onboard in the last 15 years.

Re: New Common Lisp website

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Post by BMarkmann » Sat, May 14, 2016, 4:57 PM UTC

I love common lisp. That being said, i feel like this effort might be better spent contributing to modernizing and cleaning up / updating the existing community sites like cliki.net.

Re: New Common Lisp website

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Post by nabla9 » Sat, May 14, 2016, 4:58 PM UTC

fadelakin wrote: post #3

Can someone explain to me the main differences between a language like Common Lisp and Haskell? I'm planning on learning on a purely functional language this year and I've narrowed it down to Haskell and CL but I don't know which to pick. Haskell has sort of been winning due to my friends knowing it and using it. If you have any resources as well, please let me know. I don't know if this is the right place to post th…

CL is not purely functional language.

CL is either multi-paradigm language or Lisp paradigm language. There is lisp style programming.

It has many functional primitives but typical CL programmer is not programming functionally. Other languages like Scheme or Clojure are more functionally 'oriented' Lisps.

Re: New Common Lisp website

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Post by cosarara97 » Sat, May 14, 2016, 4:59 PM UTC

fadelakin wrote: post #3

Can someone explain to me the main differences between a language like Common Lisp and Haskell? I'm planning on learning on a purely functional language this year and I've narrowed it down to Haskell and CL but I don't know which to pick. Haskell has sort of been winning due to my friends knowing it and using it. If you have any resources as well, please let me know. I don't know if this is the right place to post th…

You can write purely functional programs in CL, but it's not a purely functional language in the way haskell is, and I think most people don't use it that way.

Re: New Common Lisp website

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Post by somethingsimple » Sat, May 14, 2016, 5:05 PM UTC

protomyth wrote: post #2

Click specification: "We're currently working on parsing the TeX sources of the specification to generate a more modern version of the CLHS. This might take a while." Yeah, that's probably not the message you want to send after all the virtues (e.g. speed) listed on the first page.

Why? They're just being honest about it. It's a large spec and it surely isn't that easy to convert it to a more modern format.

Re: New Common Lisp website

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Post by dri_ft » Sat, May 14, 2016, 5:06 PM UTC

I hate the current trend for websites to have about a page's worth of information spread over about eight pages' worth of space. I'm used to seeing it on startup websites, where it doesn't bother me so much because I expect those to be trendy. But I'm recently seeing it infect websites of old school geek projects that I feel should know better. This is one example and the new emacs website a few days ago was another.