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However: if not []: print("looks boolean to me...")
Can't win em all I suppose :P My point is that, for me, Common Lisp is particularly defficient in this regard, in a way that means I can't really consider using Common Lisp for development work today.
Any good implementations if common lisp on Windows?
Lisp is quite popular at my current workplace. A few popular open source projects published by our organization have been written in Clojure (a dialect of Lisp that runs on JVM and CLR). A few domain specific languages used internally in our organization are also inspired by Lisp. On a more personal front, I find Lisp to be simple, elegant, and expressive. I use Common Lisp (SBCL) for personal use. Working with Lisp…
> I sometimes wonder why Lisp has not been more popular in the technology industry. Larry Wall said that a language should make the easy things easy, and the hard things possible. I think the problem is that Lisp doesn't make the easy things easy. Before you tar and feather me, hear me out. There are two different ways in which Lisp doesn't make the easy things easy. First, syntax. "But it's easy! In fact, it's the e…
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1: I really don't see how CL or Clojure are any more complicated than, say, Rust or C++. If anything, CL and Clojure are simpler, just different. 3: Most useful libraries are portable between different CL implementations. The choice is really "CL or Clojure or which Scheme implementation?" Not to discredit Picolisp or Shen, but those languages feel very much (esp. Shen) like a research language. Picolisp has more of…
>Lisp related books are among the best in CS. SICP, LoL, etc. are timeless. Lisp books also tend to have the characteristic where you have to find the "right" compiler for the examples to work. I've yet to pick up a book where all the examples "just work".
Though, this is a bit of a hard problem for authors. Most code that can fit as snippets or short examples does not have what any code in real projects would have. To that end, the code is literally made mainly for you to try and simulate in your head. Running on a computer is a convenience and should be used, but the goal is to internalize it all. Right?
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> how I don't have to worry about it fading like the next programming fad. I'm not sure I understand this bit. What other programming language has "faded" and how has it "faded"? At least since the more mature age of software, which I'd say started around '95 or so (so 20+ years).
Pascal, perl, ASP, every ML, Fortran, Cobol, Eiffel, Modula, all "4GL" languages.
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Pascal, perl, ASP, every ML, Fortran, Cobol, Eiffel, Modula, all "4GL" languages.
If by ASP you mean classic Visual Basic, I'll grant you that. And Pascal. But ML, Eiffel and Modula were never mainstream. And Perl, Fortran, Cobol probably still have more programmers out there than Common Lisp has :)
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> I sometimes wonder why Lisp has not been more popular in the technology industry. One major reason was hardware. Lisp might have started in IBM mainframes, but the development environment from Xerox and the Lisp Machines that followed up where quite expensive for single developers, back when the industry was heavily focused on bringing down the costs of time-sharing services, which where owned mostly by mainframes,…
Lisp ran on the first UNIX workstations too, Franz Lisp ran fine on even the earliest Sun machines. Lucid pivoted from Lisp on UNIX to C++ on UNIX, they didn't have anything to do with Lisp Machines.
Yep, I always get that part of Lucid's history wrong.
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Portacle makes it all even easier, it's a self-contained package of emagc/SBCL/Slime, etc. with sane defaults https://portacle.github.io/
Can Portacle be used without Emacs? Does it integrate with Sublime Text, Atom or Vim?
This is not good , the info density for the screen area is too low. This could have been one maybe two screens worth. Is this the credits to Friends? Am I consuming Lisp Content while chillin in my penthouse on my 20k couch using a gold plated IPad X Tablet? Millennials are Killing Common Lisp. one page, https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/