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Thinking in Lisp

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-04 20:31

SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.
That's because it takes forever to think of the solution in Lisp and Haskell as opposed to a decent language. Faggot lispers will spend most of their time figuring out how best to abuse recursion because they think it makes them leet programmers or some shit.

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-05 19:05

>>20-22
Thanks, that's plenty.

There's something I never understood, though; in a decent Lisp, should defmacro top-level forms be evaluated one at a time (and injected immediately into the macro environment), such that mutual macro dependency is impossible (e.g. macro abc uses macro xyz and the other way around)?  Doing it any other way just seems like too much pain, if not impossible.  (yeah I'm the fucktard who wants to write a Lisp variant, shoot me)

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