LISP [part '7]

LISP

>>40
As the denizens of /b/ would put it:

``fucking fail''.

>>41
^{_{(back-to '/b/ 'please)}}

>>40
gave up?
or realized your time is better spent by learning something useful? _{like JAVA}

whats so good about LISP, anyway??
(genuine question)

>>44
absolutely nothing unless you're in a situation that ^requires the use of LISP.
the only reason these fags suck The Sussman's & LISP's dicks so hard is because they happened to come across MIT's free online material. the shit was SO cash (and so far over their head) that they considered The Sussman and his trusty steed, Abelson as uber-intelligent. don't get me wrong, I think The Sussman and Abelson are very smart, accomplished people, but these fucktards merely worship The Sussman because they know nothing better NOT because they actually understand or practice anything they've supposedly read.

>>45
tl;dr don't believe the hype

>>44
Read SICP!

LISP is so good because it was accidentally created 50 years ago.  Lisp is great because it is the original multiparadigm programming language, supporting (in the common standard) imperitive programming, functional programming, object oriented programming, and much more.

Lisp is awesome because a standard built in function like mapcar has an entire "design pattern" for how to emulate it in Sepples - and the Sepples programmers think they are on to something new and good with it!

Lisp is wonderful because functions are first class citizens and macros have the full power of the language at their disposal.

Code can be data and data can be code - which is similar (though different) to the most powerful language on the OTHER side of the spectrum: assembly.  Lisp continues its tradition of truly dynamic programming.

There are many reasons, some mean more to particular people than others, but seriously, why don't you start your adventure and find out for yourself how much fun casting SPELS with Lisp can be!

>>45
What situations "requre" the use of Lisp - aside from editing your emacs settings?

>>47
the most enthusiastic reply i've seen in /prog/!

>>48
When your boss tells you to.

>>50
A boss, in an enterprise corporation, telling him to use a toy language?

>>45
SICP is widely recognized as the best introductory text on computer science; its not just a /prog/ thing. The cult of The Sussman is a /prog/ thing, as is widely recognized by as unscientific and ultimately destructive.

>>51
I meant it hypothetically. There are no situations that require a certain programming language. They are all touring complete so they can all do the same thing. The only difference is the amount off effort certain tasks take. You are only required to use a certain programming language when someone from higher-up tells you.

>>47
AAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA

>>54
If you have an actual rebuttal of some kind, please, proceed; otherwise, go back to your JAVAIDS and be quiet.

Let's spam LISP instead of contributing actual content!

LISP

LISP

ELEPHANT

>>56
This is the LISP thread. What's your problem?

>>60
My problem is that there's no LISP in a LISP thread. So I wanted  to encourage peoples to post what is to be posted here.

>>56,60,61
Same spammer.

LISP

Live, dammit!

ATS

L I S P

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LISP [Part VIII]
http://dis.4chan.org/read/prog/1229134859/

LISP [Part IX]
http://dis.4chan.org/read/prog/1236726527/

LISP [Part X]
http://dis.4chan.org/read/prog/1244693282/

LISP

(do ((love-scheme #t)) ((not love-scheme))
  (post-in-LISP-thread))

>>67
wtf? LISP

HASKELL question:

What's the name of a function that will do this:

fun 3 (*2) = [3,6,12,24..]

?

>>72
flip iterate

LISP

>>73
thank you

LISP

putStrLn $ concat $ repeat "LISP "

Yes, the newline at the end is important.

repeat $ putPost http://dis.4chan.org/read/prog/1221358859 "LISP"

>>75
putStrLn $ cycle "LISP "

OMG OPTIMIZED

>>72-77
Please don't haskell here, this thread is about LISP.

LISP.

LISP