/prog/ - What is the purpose of LISP?

Name: Anonymous 2014-07-08 7:34

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Name: Anonymous 2014-07-08 8:20

List processing

Name: Anonymous 2014-07-08 11:20

Anus processing

Name: Anonymous 2014-07-08 11:42

(define expert-currying (lambda () (lambda (x) (lambda (y) (+ x y)))))

Name: Anonymous 2014-07-08 12:51

>>1
The purpose of LISP is to elevate C programmers to the metaprogramming world; then it must be ditched for Haskell.

Name: Anonymous 2014-07-08 14:36

Lisp is purely an educational language. Its purpose is to show that everything could be done with macros, and also to show why it shouldn't all be done with macros. After that, Lisp is useless except for menial scripting tasks (which are usually still easier accomplished with Python).

Name: Anonymous 2014-07-08 16:55

>>6

I've designed several Symta prototypes using Common Lisp and I'll assure you that Python's syntax would have complicated that task orders of magnitude, because of the way it represents linked lists. Moreover, Common Lisp is fast and complies to native code efficiently, compared to Python, where everything goes through a hashtable. The only major practical drawback of Lisp is garbage collection, which greatly increases runtime complexity.

Name: Anonymous 2014-07-08 17:23

>>7
Shalom Aleykhem!

Name: Anonymous 2014-07-08 17:56

Ruby a shit.

Name: Anonymous 2014-07-08 18:12

>>6

purely an educational language

No they aren't.

Name: >>10 2014-07-09 9:42

Yes they are. People use Lisp to learn programming and then go to work and only use PHP.

Name: Anonymous 2014-07-09 9:50

>>11
I use VB.NET at work.

Sad sad sad truth.

Name: Anonymous 2014-07-10 2:09

>>12

You can always get yourself fired. It is your own choice to eat shit.

Name: Anonymous 2014-07-10 3:54

>>13
But I like being able to pay rent.

Name: Anonymous 2014-07-10 4:17

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Name: Anonymous 2014-07-10 5:14

>>12
Start writing F#. I'm sure your retard coworkers won't notice a thing.

Name: Anonymous 2014-07-10 12:18

>>15
ADVANCED LISPPERS ARE NOT NORMAL

Name: Anonymous 2014-07-11 7:26

>>13
I'm already headed down that road :(

I need the money so bad though.

Name: Anonymous 2014-07-11 13:05

>>18
You can sell your little tight anus to a ritch boy (of your age or a little older) that will love you and cuddle with you

Name: Anonymous 2014-07-11 21:34

LISP is about the pleasure of being cummed inside.
/PROG/ CHALLENGE: implement a LISPM that can modify and write its own primitives!

Name: Anonymous 2014-07-11 23:09

>>20

Already implemented. See Smalltalk.

Name: Anonymous 2014-07-12 6:41

Smalltalk a Ruby.
Ruby a shit.

Name: Anonymous 2014-07-12 8:25

To advocate LISP is to mark yourself as unemployable in technology, which is noble, but most people need money to live and therefore succumb to useful languages.

Name: Anonymous 2014-07-12 8:28

>>23
As if we didn't know that Lisp is shit.

Name: Anonymous 2014-07-12 9:25

>>23-24
Fuck off right now.

Name: Anonymous 2014-07-12 9:39

Money a shit.

Name: Anonymous 2014-07-12 9:59

>>26
Then give all of yours to me.

Name: Anonymous 2014-07-12 11:23

>>25
Way too mad?

Name: Anonymous 2014-07-12 13:02

>>27
You literally want my last dollar. That's fine, I only use money for drugs anyway.

Name: Anonymous 2014-07-12 21:30

>>27

I give you all my shit.

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