Re:The Liberating Experience of Common Lisp
by ds9soft on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @04:34PM
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The sense of security is provided by a good test suite (which you still need) plus SBCL type annotations.
Re:The Liberating Experience of Common Lisp
by dannyobrien on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @06:56PM
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I've never managed to achieve that (the comparable sense of security), which may be on me.
Out of interest, have you worked in one of these typed languages -- Haskell, Elm, maybe OCaml (haven't tried it), Idris, Rust? I think they feel very different in this axis compared to C/C++/Objective-C/Java. Not necessarily better (I am still reminded of the term "bondage-and-discipline language" from the Jargon File[1]), but different.
[1]: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/bondage-and-discipline-lan...
(Obligatory mention here of Coalton, which is an experiment in creating that sense of security within a CL paradigm: https://github.com/coalton-lang/coalton )