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Gödel, Escher, Elisp: The Beauty of Macros (www.chiply.dev)
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[–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

One of these days I gotta write a proper program in a lisp. Everything I read about them makes them seem really cool, but I've never gotten around to it.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Absolutely goated. There's just something about it that feels good. I think it's the fact the it feels a bit like writing Unix pipelines but in reverse. You can visualize data move through your program like pipes.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    I got a bit of this from working with pipes in Elixir (no surprise since it was Clojure-inspired) but I fall back to the simplicity of syntax lisp offers. I definitely recommend Janet for ease of tooling and built-in networking.

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    • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Reminds me of the time George Costanza finished composing his meta-circular evaluator before instantly transforming into the software installation wizard (relevant timestamp). Never again has the eval-apply dark arts of metaprogramming been conjured so deeply.

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    [–] 0 points 3 months ago

    This website has too many red flags. The entire thing may be AI-generated.

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