If you are an Emacs user with a keen eye, you will have noticed that in Emacs Lisp, code is data. After all, 'Lisp' is shorthand for 'List Processing'. One of E...
  • queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    27 days ago

    One of these days I gotta write a proper program in a lisp. Everything I read about them makes them seem really cool, but I’ve never gotten around to it.

    • RumRunningDevil@lemmy.zip
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      27 days ago

      Absolutely goated. There’s just something about it that feels good. I think it’s the fact the it feels a bit like writing Unix pipelines but in reverse. You can visualize data move through your program like pipes.

      • xoggy@programming.devEnglish
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        27 days ago

        I got a bit of this from working with pipes in Elixir (no surprise since it was Clojure-inspired) but I fall back to the simplicity of syntax lisp offers. I definitely recommend Janet for ease of tooling and built-in networking.