Since every other language now has higher order functions and lexical closures and things like that Lisp isn't as special as it used to be. Now it's mostly just a really ugly version of those languages but with a weird emphasis on recursion and a very fancy macro facility.
I find I can move between dynamic languages and Scheme pretty easily.
as someone who writes elixir all day, I really love what lisp is but I feel lisp's major weakness is that it makes everythign unergonomic in order to make macros very ergonomic. You will never find another language in which writing macros is easier. the problem is it comes at the cost of doing everything else a bit of a pain in the ass.
I love elixir because it feels like the syntax clojure would have if it had a syntax imho.
Haha, nice one! :-)
(can only assume you're joking)
Since every other language now has higher order functions and lexical closures and things like that Lisp isn't as special as it used to be. Now it's mostly just a really ugly version of those languages but with a weird emphasis on recursion and a very fancy macro facility.
I find I can move between dynamic languages and Scheme pretty easily.
as someone who writes elixir all day, I really love what lisp is but I feel lisp's major weakness is that it makes everythign unergonomic in order to make macros very ergonomic. You will never find another language in which writing macros is easier. the problem is it comes at the cost of doing everything else a bit of a pain in the ass.
I love elixir because it feels like the syntax clojure would have if it had a syntax imho.
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Lisp is homoiconic which most other languages are not. This makes it useful for certain applications over others.
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Some jokes are serious some serious statements are jokes. Perlis's epigrams are one example.
Inhad to look up what Perlins' (!) Epigrams are. Worth a read!
https://iiif.library.cmu.edu/file/Simon_box00075_fld05959_bd...