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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Clojure exists and has become quite popular. And Racket meanwhile seems to be morphing away from a dialect of Scheme (it used to be called MzScheme) into its own language.
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Replying to @paulg @SarvasvKulpati
And yes, job descriptions and language choices both have a lot of signal in them.
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A high quality job description, definitely, but what languages are better today? I see JS everywhere, but afaik JS wasn’t even that much of a thing back then. So I guess I’m wondering what languages are a positive signal in your opinion
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I'm not in close enough touch with what languages are popular with which programmers nowadays to say, but since there are now so many languages (and frameworks) it seems likely that language choice is a bigger signal than ever.
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