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Lisp aesthetics (and OO message passing)

Started by phildawes · 9 months ago

The Lisp style has been really trying my sense of aesthetic.
Yesterday I got really hung up on the fact that I prefer the ‘message-passing’ approach to OO rather than the ‘call a function and pass in the object as an arg’ style. The latter just feels ... Continue reading »

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  • Standards are great, and with Lisp everyone can have one :-)

    I haven't done any Lisp for about 10 years, but when solving a problem in Lisp the first thing you do is write a language that helps you express the solution...
  • Forth is another system in which you write a new language to match your problem; it is equally as fun exploring the many OO systems people have built on top of Forth, which has the added challenge of Reverse Polish Notation.

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