Re:Einstein Notation applied in programming
by currentoor on Sunday March 08, 2015 @07:03PM
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Nice post. I studied with this notation too but I was not clever enough to connect it to my programming.
This is a good example of a situation where something like lisp's macro system would be very useful. But I don't understand what the author means by
On the other end of the spectrum, lisp is designed for its upper layer elegance. Its macros are structured all the way to the top. However, to achieve that, it limits its lower level representations. In fact, it takes work-around for simple switches and loops.
What's the work-around? Common Lisp and Clojure have built in conditionals and loops.
Re:Einstein Notation applied in programming
by hzhou321 on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @03:37PM
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Obviously it is my ignorance. I'll revise it back. But I still think MyDef is more than lisp. I need find a lisp expert friend (that is willing to understand MyDef) to make better narration. :)
This is a good example of a situation where something like lisp's macro system would be very useful. But I don't understand what the author means by
On the other end of the spectrum, lisp is designed for its upper layer elegance. Its macros are structured all the way to the top. However, to achieve that, it limits its lower level representations. In fact, it takes work-around for simple switches and loops.
What's the work-around? Common Lisp and Clojure have built in conditionals and loops.