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Re: "What is your favorite Lisp dialect?"
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 · 3 months 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 · 3 months ago
I've only used Emacs Lisp so far, so I can't really say anything bad about.
2023-08-14 · 3 months 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).
Scheme for intro to "advanced CS" with SICP, Common Lisp with PAIP for hardcore and totally crazy stuff to implement in C/C++ and just weeks in CL. But Scheme has lots of fun too with Guile/Guix.
2023-10-09 · 4 weeks ago
What is your favorite Lisp dialect? — List out your favorite Lisp dialect(s) and reason(s) why you like them, but also flaw(s) with them, if there are any.
💬 Troler · 7 comments · 2023-07-23 · 3 months ago · #dialects #discussion #Lisp #programming