I learned Common Lisp last summer. I had been using some combination of Python, C++, C, and Java for about 8 years, and I wanted to break out of my popular language box. I was more or less attracted to the “data as code” idea, but really it had a bunch of selling points that [...]
Quick-Links for the TL;DR Crowd About Lisp: Describes Lisp as an overview. High Level Overview: Describes in general what is needed to program with Lisp. All you need SBCL Emacs SLIME asdf-install Code examples: A few rudimentary Lisp snippets. Other Lisp Features: Features that I did not feel like explaining Resources About Lisp Note: For [...]
I am a mild-mannered C#/C++ programmer by day, and I have been learning Lisp in my spare time. Comparatively speaking, I do not spend much time programming for personal projects (only an hour or two a day), but I noticed something awesome recently: Lisp is influencing the way I write C++ in a few different [...]
