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Re: "What is your favorite Lisp dialect?"
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 · 5 months ago
🖥️ zetamacs · Dec 14 at 20:22:
Commenting months after the fact, I realize.
Common Lisp is what does it for me. Yes, it's effectively Howl's Moving Castle - a little bit of everything, so as to become anything. But that makes it obscure, historically interesting, and above all... charming? And in the end, there is nothing I cannot do in it, all the while feeling like a real wizard.
Scheme (Guile, really) also occupies a special place because of Guix and GuixSD. However, I find CL far more natural and comfortable for most things. IMO Guile has moved past the minimal elegance of Scheme, only to fall short of the depth and power of CL. The middle ground is useful, but not always nice.
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 [mod] · 8 comments · 2023-07-23 · 8 months ago · #dialects #discussion #Lisp #programming