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Re: Common Lisp homepage

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Post by TheRealKing » Thu, May 17, 2018, 5:12 PM UTC

venuur wrote: post #309

reikonomusha wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Critically, though, it's not the same Fortran. Fortran 2008 is VERY different from FORTRAN 77.

Very good point! I find the structure of modern Fortran very clear (although somewhat verbose compared to same python).

check out the new impressive built-in parallel features in Fortran 2018 here: https://goo.gl/ZbH4t7 GFortran 8.1 has already implemented the majority of it, and Intel is already adding the new features to their new Intel Fortran 2019. I don't know of any other mainstream language at the moment, that has native shared- and distributed-memory parallelism capabilities based on one-sided communications without recourse to the complex ugly out-of-language MPI library calls.

Re: Common Lisp homepage

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Post by hajile » Tue, May 22, 2018, 8:46 PM UTC

ssijak wrote: post #182

Any advantage to learning Lisp instead of something like Elixir today? I find Elixir to be modern, a large amount of libraries, larger and active community, BEAM VM, has macros also... Can`t think of a reason to invest time in Lisp at the cost of mastering something Elixir, but maybe I am wrong.

Why not do both?

http://joxa.org/

http://lfe.io/

Re: Common Lisp homepage

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Post by hajile » Tue, May 22, 2018, 8:46 PM UTC

deathtrader666 wrote: post #249

ssijak wrote: post #182

Any advantage to learning Lisp instead of something like Elixir today? I find Elixir to be modern, a large amount of libraries, larger and active community, BEAM VM, has macros also... Can`t think of a reason to invest time in Lisp at the cost of mastering something Elixir, but maybe I am wrong.

I'm in the same boat as you.

You can have your cake and eat it too

http://joxa.org/

http://lfe.io/