Notices tagged with lisp

#introductions

Hi all, I'm new at mastodon in general. I'm a lisper (mainly common lisp, novice schemer, love all the lisps). I work with Igalia's compiler team on WebAssembly formal spec and WebAssembly support in Firefox (c++). Free Open Source Software proponent, and free open knowledge for everyone. I am also a logician, used to work on set theory years ago.

Thanks @phoe for introducing me to functional cafe! Looking forward to fun times talking about any #lisp dialect.

#Lisp #CommonLisp

I have overhauled the Lisp Koans. They should suck much, much less now.

https://github.com/google/lisp-koans/pull/111

I used #lisp in #emacs to help solve this #puzzle - but only as a calculator!

I have a ten digit number, abcdefghij. Each of the digits is different, and

a is divisible by 1ab is divisible by 2abc is divisible by 3abcd is divisible by 4abcde is divisible by 5abcdef is divisible by 6abcdefg is divisible by 7abcdefgh is divisible by 8abcdefghi is divisible by 9abcdefghij is divisible by 10What’s my number?

From a pair of John #Conway puzzles in the Guardian

I am growing tired of #c, #perl and #python.

Wonder what I could do to transition into a shop that like more interesting languages like any of the #lisp family, particularly #guile, or functional sort of languages like #ocaml or #haskell.

As I am learning #guile and #ocaml, expressing ideas in #C and #python seem tedious and somehow lack elegance.

I feel somehow trapped where I am. I fear soon I will stop learning. *sigh*

#CommonLisp #Lisp #Help #ReviewNeeded #Programming

I am working on a tutorial that describes the Common Lisp condition system.

So far, I have about a half of it written; I first explain dynamic variables to the reader, then build a simple hook system using dynamic variables, and then move that system to the Lisp condition system using HANDLER-BIND.

Could I request a general review of the part that is already present there? Boosts welcome.

https://gist.github.com/phoe/5659f8e5d8ff85e99565de17e39e4449

One of the great things about #LISP is that there is not much syntactic sugar. #Clojure, I'm looking at you!

https://youtu.be/M-BFgErib4k

@Wolf480pl

Yes, it is one possible approach. Just by no means the only one nor inherently superior.

Especially since I started having to worry about the bigger picture, e.g. dealing with quality, finance and compliance issues, I have learned to stay away from dogmatic approaches.

E.g., from a personal perspective I intensely dislike Python; but I will use it when that's the best tool for the job under the circumstances (conversely, see above about #Lisp 😔).

i've started on a scientific paper about my Common #Lisp JACL thanks to encouragement and support from Robert Strandh and the SICL community. great folks, and writing is super fun

#Lisp @lisp Is Racket like Rammstein? Because Ich liebe Rammstein.

Thanks, @salixlucida

@lisp #Lisp the dev are calling the literary Chinese language #WYLang for 文言程序言, I reckon. It looks too JS like? I should rather it use 【】《》•。、 ｏｒ such marks, the latter of which are backwards compatible to literary and classical text.

https://wy-lang.org/

So nifty doodle!

Dear #Lisp @lisp Someone made a nice programming language using literary Chinese. I was hoping to someday make a Scheme which does this. Please tell me:甲. Can this easily be made more Lispian easily and how would I do so?乙. I wanted such a language to use the old staff numbers (stick calculation in squares, came before abacus, now in Unicode) and “Suzhou” numerals in an organic way. Any thoughts how to do that?丙. It looks weird to read left to right and is ugly. How to make text TtB,RtL?

@emacsomancer

Let's be honest here: one doesn't have to know #lisp to feel miserable writing C++

@dirtycommo @bendersteed

@emacsomancer

> a programming language everybody hates

Beg to disagree.

My first programming language was #Lisp. I'd still be writing code in it if there was a wider, well maintained selection of libraries.

It is the ideal language for concise and efficient data manipulation.