Re:Getting Started with Lisp (2019)
by greggyb on Monday December 21, 2020 @01:11PM
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It's easy to get to a shallow similarity with Python. I use elpy for Python development in emacs.
My development style is highly iterative and I tend toward functional paradigms. I build up a Python program by evaluating lots of small pieces, slowly building those into the structure of my program. I don't write code into a saved file without first evaluating it in a linked REPL session.
Python does not support the same style of connecting to a live process, like Lisp does. Nor does it have the same facilities of redefining components in a running system.
The surface level actions look similar between my Lisp development and my Python development.
My development style is highly iterative and I tend toward functional paradigms. I build up a Python program by evaluating lots of small pieces, slowly building those into the structure of my program. I don't write code into a saved file without first evaluating it in a linked REPL session.
Python does not support the same style of connecting to a live process, like Lisp does. Nor does it have the same facilities of redefining components in a running system.
The surface level actions look similar between my Lisp development and my Python development.