Lisp-Stick on a Python

Re:Lisp-Stick on a Python by jlarocco on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @12:06PM (#33611889)

Here's a browser written in pure Common Lisp: https://closure.common-lisp.dev/

These questions are so silly. Nobody's written a web-browser in Rust, Python, Ruby, Java, Clojure, Haskell, Erlang, Typescript, Javascript, etc. but that hasn't stopped anybody from using them.

Just admit you don't want to learn Lisp.

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Re:Lisp-Stick on a Python by bitwize on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @06:18PM (#33616597)

Doesn't support HTML5, CSS3, JS. Non-starter.

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Re:Lisp-Stick on a Python by abdulhaq on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @01:53AM (#33619790)

I learnt Lisp sometime around 1986 (from library books and later, on the Sinclair QL LOL), I do love it in some ways, but found distribution of final code to be an issue. I don't think it's suitable for all tasks.

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Re:Lisp-Stick on a Python by medo-bear on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @05:21AM (#33620983)

> but found distribution of final code to be an issue

in 1986 ?

> don't think it's suitable for all tasks

to this day im yet to see an example of a software engineering problem that lisp is not suitable to solve. if you have such an example ready i would be genuinely curious. otherwise its just a thought from a very common and lazy misunderstanding of what lisp actually is

im talking about computational problems. things that are non-examples include such things as business sense/requirements, availability of programers, availability of ready made libraries/frameworks, or claims of apparent unsuitabilty in large teams

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