Re:If you want to learn Lisp, be ready to meet the scowling ...
by divia on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @08:51PM
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Has anyone here had any experience using newlisp? There are things I don't love about it, like the lack of backquote syntax, but the community seems a lot friendlier than what palish has had to deal with. That being said, my experience with comp.lang.lisp hasn't been bad. I posted a simple question about destructive functions there a while ago and got a helpful response pretty quickly.
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Re:If you want to learn Lisp, be ready to meet the scowling ...
by nostrademons on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @10:13PM
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NewLisp is dynamically scoped. That's a showstopper for many people who have any experience with dynamically-scoped languages (eg. Emacs Lisp, Maclisp).