Another reason why I need to learn Lisp 31 August 2009
Posted by manniwood in Uncategorized.trackback
Today’s Hacker News linked to Why Lisp macros are cool, a Perl perspective, and it made me want to learn Lisp. I just need to make the time…
One thing that Lisp doesn’t have going for it is its syntax. Lisp syntax is so uniform that it’s not particularly user-friendly. It’s macro-friendly (read the above link and you’ll see why) but not as human-readable as programming languages with more syntactic sugar.
Apparently, Perl 6 is going to have Lisp-like macros, even though Perl 6 will still have Perl-like syntax. It will be interesting playing with that when Perl 6 (Rakudo?) has a beta release. Is it possible that we could have it all? Richer, less-uniform syntax, and yet still the power of macros? That would be nice…
Comments»
No comments yet — be the first.