Scheme is not a lisp

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12233963

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wow can you not

*a scheme is not a vision you never have been tempted by a demon or a god.

What is a "lisp" then?

Lua is a lisp.

>>5
Fuck you no it's not. Forth is a Lisp.

>>6
QBasic is a Forth.

sexps make Scheme an ``acceptable lisp"

What programming language is this?

>>9
A language that is consisting of Abstract List trees describing operations to be performed on lists/trees or data items.
Something like self-modifying legos built on top of each other.

lisp: common lisp, scheme, clojure
not lisp: lua, forth, everything else

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Clojure is NOT a Lisp.

lisp: lisp
not lisp: scheme, common lisp, clojure, forth, lua, everything else

This sounds like every job application in Richmond, VA ever. I’ve seen so many companies list stuff like this where the people doing the hiring don’t even know anything about the technology they are trying to hire for.

FizzBuzz does have its place, but definitely not for the average web developer. If they wanted someone who did serious backend engineering, then it would be a decent way to see how someone steps through logic, but very few web dev jobs really need anyone who does that.

Scheme is a Jewish bastardization interpretation of Algol.


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>>16
What programming language is this?

>>17
Its a Lisp. Its also an acceptable CBM Basic (as written by Bill Gates).

>>15
Scheme is not an Algol.