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Is LISP still useful in today's world? Which version is most used?
I try to teach myself a new programming language in regular intervals of time. Recently, I've read how Lisp and its dialects are at the complete opposite end of the spectrum from languages like C/C++, ...
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Why isn't Lisp more widespread?
I am starting to learn Scheme by the SICP videos, and I would like to move to Common Lisp next.
The language seems very interesting, and most of the people writings books on it advocate that it has ...
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Would you use (a dialect of) LISP for a real-world application? Where and why?
LISP (and dialects such as Scheme, Common LISP and Clojure) haven't gained much industry support even though they are quite decent programming languages. (At the moment though it seems like they are ...
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Is there a language more general than Lisp? [closed]
I've been programming for a long time, and writing in Lisp (well, mostly Scheme) for a little less. My experience in these languages (and other functional languages) has informed my ability to write ...
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Is there a language offering LISP-like macros with a more complex syntax?
LISP's macros are extremely powerful constructs, and the inability to introspect and modify the program itself beyond the method signature level has always struck me as a limitation. Yet I favour ...
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Is the Lisp “family” of languages any more closely related than the “C-like-syntax” family?
I was recently thinking about the large variety of lisp languages, specifically the fact that while they all have similar syntax, and could all in theory be implemented from the same small set of ...
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Is there a way to use a higher level language in a competition that only has C, C++ and Java by default?
On that competition, you gain access to a system with gcc, vim, emacs and Java. You can't take any file with you and there's no internet access, but you can do whatever you want inside that system. ...
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According to Paul Graham in 2002, languages can be ranked in power order and Lisp is the first on that ranking. Is this still accurate? [closed]
His arguments are based on the premise a programmer can see when a language is less powerful than that he is using because the lack of an essential key feature, and that Lisp's macros is a key feature ...
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Does syntax matters for a (Lispy) Domain Specific Language (MELT, inside GCC)?
I am the main author and designer of MELT, a domain specific language to extend GCC (the Gnu Compiler Collection). The implementation is available free software (GPLv3 licensed). If you want a ...
