What I learnt about Lisp this week.
- 1. Common Lisp is trash. The name should have given it away. Sigh. I always give away the benefit of doubts - such a social creature, I am.
- 2. Scheme is more elegant, hewing closer to the point of McCarthyan publications : that only few axiomatic idioms are sufficient to generate nearly all others.
- 3. Clojure is cool trash. Since it runs on JVM, and was developed more recently, the syntax and ecosystem are nice for getting things done.
Many thanks to the author of : Make a Lisp : for giving me something to get started with, in this study. I did not bother to finish the assignment - as it is full of practical chores which do not aid my understanding of the axioms.
MAL tutorial : https://github.com/kanaka/mal/
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