The article touches a nice point with regard to implementation of CL by adhering to the ANSI specs.
Since a couple of months I am learning and giving a try to different languages or dialects based on LISP, and also reading a lot of such blogs. This blog is impressive, so were all blogs by PG on arc, and by a lot of others. LISP people all mostly so smart, and are writing so nice and effectively. And most of these smart people are capable of developing their own approach, dialect, libraries or programming languages around LISP. Finally what happens is that a newbie like me, does still not have a clue on which LISP to use to start with, to build a Sinatra(ruby)-like framework.
So I decide to develop my own language/dialect based on some LISP and the result will be again the same. Do too many smart people mean a chaos forever or is (should) there (be) hope for a mainstream LISP?
I know you weren't actually asking this, but if you're really looking for a Sinatra-like framework in a Lisp there are some pretty rad ones in Clojure. I've been experimenting with web programming via Clojure and have found it extremely pleasant. Check out this nice tutorial on Heroku's site: http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/clojure-web-application
If you like Lisp, you can also give reading some papers from around the Haskell (and ML etc) community a try. Chris Okasaki's Purely Functional Data Structures is a good one.(See http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/theses/okasaki.pdf for the PhD thesis, or your local library for the expanded book of the same name.)
A true developer is a competent, intelligent, caring enthusiast. The author presents himself as true developer of the first (computer industry) generation. His language of choice is Common Lisp, which has an unhealthy community full of negativity and egos. Since the author is enthusiastic about CL, he insists that each community member should be a true developer and help CL succeed.
[+] [-] diminish|14 years ago|reply
Since a couple of months I am learning and giving a try to different languages or dialects based on LISP, and also reading a lot of such blogs. This blog is impressive, so were all blogs by PG on arc, and by a lot of others. LISP people all mostly so smart, and are writing so nice and effectively. And most of these smart people are capable of developing their own approach, dialect, libraries or programming languages around LISP. Finally what happens is that a newbie like me, does still not have a clue on which LISP to use to start with, to build a Sinatra(ruby)-like framework.
So I decide to develop my own language/dialect based on some LISP and the result will be again the same. Do too many smart people mean a chaos forever or is (should) there (be) hope for a mainstream LISP?
[+] [-] raganwald|14 years ago|reply
http://xkcd.com/927/
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A true developer is a competent, intelligent, caring enthusiast. The author presents himself as true developer of the first (computer industry) generation. His language of choice is Common Lisp, which has an unhealthy community full of negativity and egos. Since the author is enthusiastic about CL, he insists that each community member should be a true developer and help CL succeed.