Common Lisp: 2022 in review

such a powerful language and such an amazing small comunity. learning lisp is not only fun but it can broaden and deepen your understanding of computing far more than what you get from syntax-soup languages. plus with common lisp you can build industrial strength applications with unrivaled interactive development

Re: Common Lisp: 2022 in review

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Post by Insanity » Tue, Jan 10, 2023, 7:48 AM UTC

medo-bear wrote: post #4

such a powerful language and such an amazing small comunity. learning lisp is not only fun but it can broaden and deepen your understanding of computing far more than what you get from syntax-soup languages. plus with common lisp you can build industrial strength applications with unrivaled interactive development

I use CL for hobby projects and do love it. The main difficulty with “industrial strength lisp” is finding places in the industry that want to do so. :/

Re: Common Lisp: 2022 in review

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Post by louis771 » Tue, Jan 10, 2023, 8:41 AM UTC

Amazing work by the author of the Common Lisp Cookbook. I've hesitated to get into CL for months, but seeing about all the activity going on, I'm in for 2023.

Re: Common Lisp: 2022 in review

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Post by dgan » Tue, Jan 10, 2023, 8:56 AM UTC

Disclaimer: not a big Lisp user.

Interesting how Lisp code is NOT littered with " if something != null, ...", unlike your average Java project (or even python, but it's less visible), and just works.

My understanding is that busines-as-usual handling of nil (empty lists) implicitely confers to Lisp code monadic style which help to avoid tedious checks

Re: Common Lisp: 2022 in review

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Post by vindarel » Tue, Jan 10, 2023, 8:58 AM UTC

louis771 wrote: post #6

Amazing work by the author of the Common Lisp Cookbook. I've hesitated to get into CL for months, but seeing about all the activity going on, I'm in for 2023.

Thank you and all for the kind words, appreciated.

Re: Common Lisp: 2022 in review

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Post by galdor » Tue, Jan 10, 2023, 9:24 AM UTC

Insanity wrote: post #5

medo-bear wrote: post #4

such a powerful language and such an amazing small comunity. learning lisp is not only fun but it can broaden and deepen your understanding of computing far more than what you get from syntax-soup languages. plus with common lisp you can build industrial strength applications with unrivaled interactive development

I use CL for hobby projects and do love it. The main difficulty with “industrial strength lisp” is finding places in the industry that want to do so. :/

Talking about Common Lisp in the places I worked for in the past has always be met with mockery and disdain. But then again, I have seen this kind of reaction for every non-mainstream language, so it is not really surprising.

I'm currently getting back to CL, hoping to do much more with it for 2023. Being able to develop incrementally in SLIME has been a joy. Hopefully I will manage to find the right project idea to apply CL to.

Re: Common Lisp: 2022 in review

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Post by medo-bear » Tue, Jan 10, 2023, 9:28 AM UTC

Insanity wrote: post #5

medo-bear wrote: post #4

such a powerful language and such an amazing small comunity. learning lisp is not only fun but it can broaden and deepen your understanding of computing far more than what you get from syntax-soup languages. plus with common lisp you can build industrial strength applications with unrivaled interactive development

I use CL for hobby projects and do love it. The main difficulty with “industrial strength lisp” is finding places in the industry that want to do so. :/

> The main difficulty with “industrial strength lisp” is finding places in the industry that want to do so

i think its important to not give people unrealistic expectations and this is why i said "you can build ..." instead of "you will find plenty of job opportunities". although, mind you, i don't think that jobs-to-size-of-community ratio is frightening