Name: Anonymous 2016-07-29 8:36
after reading all the sperging about lisp on this board, I decided to download SBCL and try to learn all the functional elegance, metaprogramming magic and parentheses. I wanted to start small and just port some of the bash/sed/awk monstrosisties or shameful windows batch scripts I wrote during my sysadmin days. they perform simple tasks and are only ugly due to inadequacy of those languages, therefore porting them to anything is a common way of learning new languages for me.
unfortunately, while lisp might be a better language than FIOC or Java (though being better than Java is not difficult), it seems to lack libraries for some network-related stuff. specifically, I need to perform an MX lookup and the only solutions I can find (after filtering through emacs-related shit about M-x) are about using implementation-specific idioms or using a FFI to communicate with a Linux-specific library. I turn to you, seasoned lithpers of /prog/, with this question: are there more portable solutions that work across different operating systems and implementations?
unfortunately, while lisp might be a better language than FIOC or Java (though being better than Java is not difficult), it seems to lack libraries for some network-related stuff. specifically, I need to perform an MX lookup and the only solutions I can find (after filtering through emacs-related shit about M-x) are about using implementation-specific idioms or using a FFI to communicate with a Linux-specific library. I turn to you, seasoned lithpers of /prog/, with this question: are there more portable solutions that work across different operating systems and implementations?