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Re:How Lisp-family languages facilitate building bioinformat... by willismichael on Monday January 09, 2017 @11:58AM (#13357737)
For a moment you had me wondering if there would be a way to use Hy and google's new Grumpy together, and then I dismissed the idea as probably utter madness. For a long time I've been pining for a Clojure-like lisp that can compile to machine code.
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Re:How Lisp-family languages facilitate building bioinformat... by nerdponx on Monday January 09, 2017 @01:32PM (#13358521)
Why wouldn't it work?
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Re:How Lisp-family languages facilitate building bioinformat... by willismichael on Monday January 09, 2017 @03:19PM (#13359446)
I'm not certain that it wouldn't work, but it would have multiple compile steps: Hy => Python => Go => Native, which would either cause a lot of pain or make nigh impossible many of the advantages of using a lisp, like connecting a repl to a running process and being able to evaluate and rewrite code from there.
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Re:How Lisp-family languages facilitate building bioinformat... by nerdponx on Monday January 09, 2017 @04:52PM (#13360152)
You could prototype in the Hy REPL then compile after.
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