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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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?
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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That’s interesting. I guess database choice, structure, etc should be exploratory process rather than here’s the data structure we will be using and let’s see how do we go about adjusting product
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