Dinosaur and Lisp

Re:Dinosaur and Lisp by qwertyuiop924 on Thursday August 25, 2016 @02:20PM (#12361194)

Really? It's pretty easy to get, with a few pointers here and there.

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Re:Dinosaur and Lisp by lispm on Thursday August 25, 2016 @02:29PM (#12361250)

Good luck reading Thomas Mann or Hermann Hesse in German...

Any modern fiction. No chance.

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Re:Dinosaur and Lisp by qwertyuiop924 on Thursday August 25, 2016 @03:19PM (#12361680)

rolls eyes

Not German, Clojure. Clojure is pretty easy.

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Re:Dinosaur and Lisp by lispm on Thursday August 25, 2016 @04:38PM (#12362299)

Really? You must be really good at Clojure. Then you can explain this:

    user=> (list 1 2 3)
    (1 2 3)
    user=> (list? (list 1 2 3))
    true

so (1 2 3) is a list.

    user=> (cons 0 (list 1 2 3))
    (0 1 2 3)
    user=> (list? (cons 0 (list 1 2 3)))
    false

(0 1 2 3) is not a list?

    user=> (list? '(0 1 2 3))        
    true

But then it is???

WTF?

Compare ELISP:

    ELISP> (listp (list 1 2 3))
    t
    ELISP> (listp (cons 0 (list 1 2 3)))
    t

and CL:

    CL-USER> (listp (list 1 2 3))
    T                                                                                                                                       
    CL-USER> (listp (cons 0 (list 1 2 3)))
    T

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Re:Dinosaur and Lisp by qwertyuiop924 on Thursday August 25, 2016 @06:28PM (#12362994)

That's pretty screwed up, but having brain-damged function naming doesn't mean it's not lisp. And a few odd corners does not illegability make.

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Re:Dinosaur and Lisp by kazinator on Thursday August 25, 2016 @10:04PM (#12363880)

Try TXR Lisp; you will be charmed.

http://www.nongnu.org/txr

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Re:Dinosaur and Lisp by qwertyuiop924 on Friday August 26, 2016 @07:44AM (#12365515)

Thanks kaz, but I've already got the manpage bookmarked. I haven't looked at it in-depth yet, but it seems to be awk, but better, which is pretty awesome.

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Re:Dinosaur and Lisp by kazinator on Friday August 26, 2016 @11:28AM (#12366912)

You can also completely ignore the "awk-but-different" TXR pattern-based extraction language, and just use it as a Lisp, too. The REPL is nothing but Lisp, and code stored in ".tl" files is treated as Lisp. TXR Lisp is designed to be a nice Lisp dialect on its own, not to just fill in the gaps in another language.

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Re:Dinosaur and Lisp by qwertyuiop924 on Friday August 26, 2016 @03:03PM (#12368503)

Well, yeah, but why have one awesome thing when you can have two? I have to finish reading the docs, so I know how it works, though.

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