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List out your favorite Lisp dialect(s) and reason(s) why you like them, but also flaw(s) with them, if there are any.
2023-07-23 · 7 weeks ago
i am not an expert at all, but i was comparing lisp and scheme some time ago and scheme felt more polished and consistent.
Having spent over a decade as a Lisper, Common Lisp is _the way_!
I wanted to like Scheme, as a minimalist. However Common Lisp provides a comprehensive and standard set of tools (40 years without changes!) for practical programming.
Common Lisp is all about macros, much better than the Scheme ones.
There are many implementations, with 100% compatibility -- free and commercial
Common Lisp is fast - if you are careful, faster than C. The best implementation, SBCL, is double the speed of fastest Scheme compilers...
2023-07-24 · 7 weeks ago
+1 for Common Lisp.
I do like the threading macros in Clojure, but you're dealing with the JVM..
Guile scheme, though I'm fairly new to schemes and lisps not really having tried many of them.
2023-07-30 · 6 weeks ago
I've only used Emacs Lisp so far, so I can't really say anything bad about.
2023-08-14 · 4 weeks ago
Having pumped Common Lisp, I have to say that I am fond of PicoLisp, and come back to it every few years to screw around, but have yet to do anything useful (or figure out how to use the built-in database).