I was thinking about what the hello-world of Lisp macros is. It might be something like (mac hello (x) `(set ,x t)) This takes one argument and sets it to t. > (hello foo) t > foo t
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Just curious, what lisp is good for and what lisp is not the best choice?
It's particularly good for exploratory programming, meaning when you're solving problems you don't understand yet. (Which actually is most programming.) It might not be so good for very low-level C-type programming where you're manipulating specific bytes in memory.
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Ok I see thanks.
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There must be so many unintuitive and juicy exploratory programming techniques that are unknown to developers since our industry places a lot of emphasis on building "production grade systems". Are there any that you've uncovered when working on projects?
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One thing I've noticed is that I do everything with lists in the early phases, then switch to other data structures as my understanding of the problem solidifies. Lists are very flexible and there are a lot of functions for munging them.
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Sounds exactly like my research project, though I'm trying to mish-mash it in kotlin and I now have this giant utility file filled with nothing but extension functions. It's starting to not even look like kotlin anymore. Should I continue thrashing kotlin around or move to LISP?
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We have tried Lisp after his response for one idea where we had too much data and had no idea how to make sense out of it. Worked fine at that stage per our team. I am not software guy so take my response accordingly though
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