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What is the quintessential lisp experience? (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by Manifoldsqr@alien.top to c/lisp
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Hello, what is the quintessential lisp experience?

Is it the interactivity that is enabled by Common Lisp? So if this is the case could you say a bit about how SLIME + Common Lisp work together to experience the beauty of lisp experience?

Moreover if macros are the killer feature of lisp because you can extend the language and make dsls wouldn’t racket offer a quintessential lisp experience?

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[–] KaranasToll@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Lisp is ahead of every other programming language. It used to be if-conditionals, garbage collection, and functional programming. Now the main lisp exclusives are the condition system and and macros that are both easy and powerful. If you want the lisp experience, write a macro and when the debuggers stops you during testing, recompile the macro, recompile the function which uses the macro, and restart from the most recent stack frame.