Re:Diminishing returns of static typing
by flavio81 on Monday October 02, 2017 @03:27PM
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>Ruby has some of the best meta-programming facilities out there.
Ruby has meta-programming facilities, but they pale compared to the easiness of doing meta-programming in Common Lisp. In Ruby, meta-programming is an advanced topic (see for example the implementation of the RoR ActiveRecord). In Lisp, meta-programming is your everyday bread&butter, and one of the first things a beginner learns. Because it isn't too different from regular programming!!
[The same comment applies, mostly, also to Clojure, Racket, Scheme, and the other Lisps]
Ruby has meta-programming facilities, but they pale compared to the easiness of doing meta-programming in Common Lisp. In Ruby, meta-programming is an advanced topic (see for example the implementation of the RoR ActiveRecord). In Lisp, meta-programming is your everyday bread&butter, and one of the first things a beginner learns. Because it isn't too different from regular programming!!
[The same comment applies, mostly, also to Clojure, Racket, Scheme, and the other Lisps]