Before Lisp, write code, solve problems. After Lisp, write code, solve problems.
I don't get it. Care to explain?
Ask HN: What Is the Lisp “Enlightment”?
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#43Before Lisp, write code, solve problems. After Lisp, write code, solve problems.
I don't get it. Care to explain?
It's a joke about the term 'enlightenment' coming from a Zen saying: https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/15921/what-is-t...
Re: Ask HN: What Is the Lisp “Enlightment”?
#44Most of the people don't see it either. But it is so cool to see that you're enlightened so ... :-) Joke aside, the part of Lisp that impressed me the most was it simplicity. Anybody can write a Lisp in a few hours but the language is as powerful as any modern language if not more. It is the perfect illustrations for programmers definition of cute: do a lot, with very few.
Re: Ask HN: What Is the Lisp “Enlightment”?
#45With non-lisps you program in a programming language. Which is then translated to a parse tree before compilation. With lisp you program directly in the parse tree.
So basically lisp is clay that can be whatever you want. Other languages are concrete, set in stone.
Combine this with incredible live environment and interactive debugging and you have a truly "clay" programming system that you can mold on the fly.
I feel this a lot working on a C# website that takes 2+ minutes to build. C# hot reload is so limited and depending on what you modify you have to rebuild anyway.