Starting learning scheme and that led me down a Lisp rabbit hole. This thing seems way more interesting than I’d thought
There’s some stuff that I’d definitely grasp faster if I could ask questions though.
Any lisp experts out there mind answering some?
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Replying to @paulg
-It's been a while since most of your writing on Lisp. What do you think has changed? -at the end of http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html , you had an interesting heuristic for determining the hacker culture of a company. Does it still hold? Any similar ones today?
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Replying to @SarvasvKulpati @paulg
Maybe this is blub paradox speaking, but lisp almost seems less surprising today than it would have 20 years ago- are languages catching up? As for the second question, I wonder if there's even a simple technical heuristic anymore, w.r.t. 'enterprise' v. startup languages
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Other languages have reached the point where they have most Lisp features except real macros. However (a) real macros are a big differentiator, and (b) once you add that extra increment of power, your language has become a dialect of Lisp.
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