Why I love Lisp

aerique wrote: post #3

Minor nitpick on the article: Common Lisp is not a family, it's a standard with many implementations[1][2]. Common Lisp is a member of the Lisp familiy of languages, just like Clojure is. [1] http://www.cliki.net/Common%20Lisp%20implementation [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp#Implementations

There are implementations which implement the standard, slight variations of it (lower case identifiers, ...) or large extended versions of it (+ MOP + CLOS everywhere + ...).

There are also derived languages like Stella, L, SubL and others which implement some kind of subset.

Then there is ISLisp, which is very similar, but slightly simplified.

Re: Why I love Lisp

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Post by pupeno » Tue, Aug 16, 2011, 2:40 PM UTC

aerique wrote: post #3

Minor nitpick on the article: Common Lisp is not a family, it's a standard with many implementations[1][2]. Common Lisp is a member of the Lisp familiy of languages, just like Clojure is. [1] http://www.cliki.net/Common%20Lisp%20implementation [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp#Implementations

Thanks. I changed the wording to reflect this. Is it better now?

Re: Why I love Lisp

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Post by tedunangst » Tue, Aug 16, 2011, 5:09 PM UTC

Did something unusual happen today? There's three lisp stories on the front page, which is about 2.9 more than the average day. Just curious.

Re: Why I love Lisp

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Post by jff » Tue, Aug 16, 2011, 5:58 PM UTC

tedunangst wrote: post #6

Did something unusual happen today? There's three lisp stories on the front page, which is about 2.9 more than the average day. Just curious.

Somebody probably posted a Lisp story early this morning, it got ranked highly, everybody else noticed that and jumped on the karma bandwagon by posting their own Lisp essays or just their favorite bit of 10-year-old Lisp lore :)

Remember, all it takes is one "XYZ sucks" post on the front page to get a front page full of "Why XYZ doesn't suck", "XYZ sucks super hard", "We're using XYZ at my startup", "Successful founders use ZYX, not XYZ", etc.

Re: Why I love Lisp

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Post by pupeno » Tue, Aug 16, 2011, 6:22 PM UTC

jff wrote: post #7

tedunangst wrote: post #6

Did something unusual happen today? There's three lisp stories on the front page, which is about 2.9 more than the average day. Just curious.

Somebody probably posted a Lisp story early this morning, it got ranked highly, everybody else noticed that and jumped on the karma bandwagon by posting their own Lisp essays or just their favorite bit of 10-year-old Lisp lore :) Remember, all it takes is one "XYZ sucks" post on the front page to get a front page full of "Why XYZ doesn't suck", "XYZ sucks super hard", "We're using XYZ at my startup", "Successful foun…

But it it is clear that XYZ is the way to go, why would anyone even consider discussing it? /s

Re: Why I love Lisp

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Post by paulasmuth » Tue, Aug 16, 2011, 8:27 PM UTC

This post has convinced me to take the time and try to learn at least a few bits of clojure. Thank you!

Re: Why I love Lisp

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Post by calebmpeterson » Tue, Aug 16, 2011, 9:43 PM UTC

paulasmuth wrote: post #9

This post has convinced me to take the time and try to learn at least a few bits of clojure. Thank you!

Clojure when viewed as a dialect of Lisp is remarkably clean and well thought out.

Clojure when viewed as a functional programming answer to multicore and concurrency is stunningly beautiful in it's simplicity.

If you haven't read Rich Hickey's prose on State and Identity. I highly recommend it: clojure.org/state