How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language

Re:How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language by kbumsik on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @06:57AM (#18228249)

As a dev from non-CS major, I personally havn't learnt anything about Lisp but I would like to know. Is Clojure (specifically ClojureScript) a good start to study about it?

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Re:How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language by knowingpark on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @07:56AM (#18228573)

Clojure is a modernised version of Lisp. It compiles to Java bytecode and runs on the JVM. Clojurescript compiles to Javascript for use in the browser. Some amazing programming tools have been written for Clojurescript. The community is very robust and opinionated, in a good way I think.

Clojure is very modern with its vectors and maps. Lisp is more of an antique, a very valuable antique though. its very interesting to learn about both at the same time, as I did :)

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Re:How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language by pjmlp on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @05:51PM (#18233611)

Contrary to popular belief, Common Lisp has support for vectors, maps, records, stack and heap allocation.

What Clojure has going for it is the wealth of Java libraries.

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Re:How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language by cjallen88 on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @07:35AM (#18228446)

Sure, start here: https://www.braveclojure.com/clojure-for-the-brave-and-true/

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Re:How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language by Royalaid on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @12:39PM (#18230797)

I just want to say that the tooling setup isn't great and you kinda have to buy into a small ecosystem to do clojurescript Dev and the easiest is probably to use lein+lein-figwheel. If you have any questions feel free to ask!

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Re:How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language by bartq on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @07:25AM (#18228377)

Yes.

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