Re:Lisp's reputation is so bad that many people don't even t...
by berntb on Tuesday April 07, 2009 @06:58AM
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Nu looked cool. (I thought from browsing that it should be some Lisp-like macro lib; a guy I knew used something like that for assembler, started early 80s. PDP-10. :-) )
Interesting idea to level a scripting language on using the message passing mechanism of Obj-C -- and so integrate the resulting code with the compiled Obj-C!
Thanks for making me look!
For example, if you're typically a lisp guy, you would probably write code like this: (init (alloc ApplicationDelegate))
But if you're an ObjC person, you'd do this: ((ApplicationDelegate alloc) init))
And strangely, if you replaced the parentheses with normal square brackets, you'd be looking at syntactically correct ObjC code! In Nu you can mix and match your sexprs and algol-like notations as long as you know what you're doing. The finished code would be something a lisp developer and ObjC developer could both understand without knowing too much of the underlying details.