Lispy Byte

March 15, 2020 • 1 min read • #lisp, #thoughts

My musings with lisp

Solving the sudoku in clojure: Peter Norvig Sudoku solver with python

http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html
https://twobithistory.org/2018/10/14/lisp.html
http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

Eliminate loops with reduce
The braces bothered me until it didn't (Rich Hickey - Its just syntax)
Yet to embrace the power of macros
Trying out CL and Racket
Object is a glorified dict(Rich Hickey - Death by Specificity)
Gods own programming language

9th May 2020

Going through Edx How to Code in racket
TCO http://neopythonic.blogspot.com/2009/04/tail-recursion-elimination.html. I do think in programming we argue sometimes on the silly aspects