What I’ve Learned From Programming In Lisp(martincmartin.com)
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What I’ve Learned From Programming In Lisp
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I learned that having a powerful cross-platform standard library was more invaluable than I previously thought. :-)
I learned I lean toward being a purist.
I learned that uniformity in good (by uniformity I mean the everything is a list feature).
I also learned that if you are mildly obsessive compulsive, (counting) the brackets will drive you crazy, and you will just give up.
Which led me to learn that if a language achieve type uniformity without syntax uniformity, it will be awesome, it will have all the goodness of lisp but with more forgiving syntax
I learned that uniformity in good (by uniformity I mean the everything is a list feature).
I also learned that if you are mildly obsessive compulsive, (counting) the brackets will drive you crazy, and you will just give up.
Which led me to learn that if a language achieve type uniformity without syntax uniformity, it will be awesome, it will have all the goodness of lisp but with more forgiving syntax
A local lisp implementation in my community saved an entire boatful of drowning puppies! Lisp is awesome!
I learned that coding in Lisp is almost as enjoyable as designing Architecture (the building kind).
i think Smalltalk was more of a mindfuck than Lisp.
I long for macros almost every time I program something in Python.