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pjmlp · 2017-08-23 16:39:25+00:00

You can easily get best of both worlds with Lisp derived languages.

nabla9 | karma 38285 | avg karma 4.67 · | 2020-11-23 14:47:56

Common Lisp is the best multi-paradigm language I know.

sklogic | karma 1228 | avg karma 0.84 · | 2016-05-16 03:00:04

And in a lisp you'd be able to mix Haskell and Prolog together, with dozens of other languages as well, seamlessly and efficiently (unlike the non-destructive Prologs people tend to embed in Haskell).

3rdAccount | karma 430 | avg karma 1.59 · | 2018-11-17 16:31:30+00:00

Or Lisp and Haskell :)

Shorel | karma 3674 | avg karma 1.11 · | 2016-12-04 01:05:05+00:00

Yes, Lisp is to me language so perfectly suited to build compilers and parsers, particularly when compared with almost any other language.

TeMPOraL | karma 106045 | avg karma 3.04 · | 2019-02-26 19:30:55+00:00

Well, Lisp is the language family where you get to choose the level of abstraction you need.

c_crank | karma 267 | avg karma 0.72 · | 2023-07-08 18:09:28

Lisp is an imperative language, yet has the same simplicity of code reuse.

blue1 | karma 1364 | avg karma 3.69 · | 2021-01-26 15:08:28

actually I consider Lisp a plus. I was asking about the algorithms mostly

snazz | karma 5427 | avg karma 2.68 · | 2019-08-19 00:35:00+00:00

I love that both are feasible options. I’m still not sure which side of the Lisp-1 vs. Lisp-2 debate I’m on, but the fact that there are such great languages on both sides of the fence is wonderful. Also, Scheme communities are more focused; this property proved extremely important to me when I was writing a CHICKEN Scheme web app.

nickpsecurity | karma 14152 | avg karma 1.39 · | 2016-05-14 20:49:59

I agree. As sklogic showed, you can actually get the remaining attributes of LISP by building a Haskell or whatever on top of it. Doesn't have to be Common LISP or even a full LISP. Just the syntax, macros, eval, and basic compiler. One can do the rest in the other language as a DSL.

And then another language as a DSL. And another. :)

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gumby | karma 61183 | avg karma 3.86 · | 2022-12-06 17:29:25

Like Lisp it's multi-paradigm

realsimplesynd | karma 46 | avg karma 1.39 · | 2021-03-12 02:42:26

I really wish I started with lisp, the unity of the whole language teaches you that you’re not just telling a computer what to do, you’re making abstractions on top of the base language.

sleepycatgirl | karma 300 | avg karma 3.3 · | 2022-10-02 13:18:42

Lisp is cute I love the syntax, the REPL-driven development to which not many languages can come close (Smalltalk I think has something similar?)

klez | karma 2585 | avg karma 2.65 · | 2019-11-26 22:54:22+00:00

To be fair lisps are multi-paradigm languages, especially Common Lisp.

Nevermark | karma 3124 | avg karma 1.82 · | 2023-03-03 15:47:32

Ah, yes I see that. C++ and even C.

I think Lisp - aside from not being as low level - also is fantastic for easily creating different coding paradigms, with the advantage that code is naturally directly manipulatable.

But C or C++ can easily recreate Lisp type computation as well.

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nickpsecurity | karma 14152 | avg karma 1.39 · | 2015-11-16 01:32:12+00:00

It can be integrated into LISP or transformed into forms of Turing complete languages. It doesn't have to be powerful to be used powerfully. :)

Part of my recurring them that you can have both worlds.

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dgan | karma 880 | avg karma 2.85 · | 2022-11-20 11:36:01

so I started learning common lisp lately. It's insane how one can combine very high level language, with down-to-metal compilation. I think that's the only language allowing it? Absolutely impressive. Feels like writing python but compiling to native

Retric | karma 55819 | avg karma 2.05 · | 2009-01-25 14:50:27

Lisp is the best language for generating HTML, XML, writing compilers, or parsers.

PS: Lisp is more a family of languages that share features than it is a specific language.

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Koshkin | karma 7543 | avg karma 1.41 · | 2023-04-05 17:55:25

I find Lisp more than any other programming language suited to be the host language for a DSL. It is also easy to represent hierarchical and flat data formats with it.

phoe-krk | karma 8255 | avg karma 6.23 · | 2022-10-27 02:46:56

The ability to freely mix programming paradigms and to bend the language towards the problem instead of the other way around. It's the thing that Common Lisp is kind of famous for.

Depending on the programming sub-sub-task that I'm working on right now, I can have simple state machines written with explicit GOTOs, algorithms working on immutable state and written in functional style, minor operations in these algorithms implemented with a functional shell but imperative core, the ability to do declarative programming and define my own syntax for the declarations while I'm at it, and the ability to always branch off to a task-specialized DSL whenever it brings direct benefits to the table.

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