Practical Common Lisp

[@xXGrandclosingXx]

Coming into learning Lisp I was skeptical, but the professor I'm going to be doing undergraduate research for required me to learn it, so I sighed and went on with it. But now as I'm working through Peter Seibels book I'm becoming a believer! Common Lisp is seriously a powerful language.

[@clangerbasher]

The biggest mystery with Lisp seems to be getting a development environment up and running. :)

[@AaronFrance]

clangerbasher Ideally one would use emacs and SLIME. For package management you would use quicklisp.

[@clangerbasher]

Aaron France Since that post I have started to look at SLIME and emacs. I am getting there slowly.

[@slicerprime]

Aaron France Yes. That's what I use as well. However, the statement "use emacs and slime" is like the proverbial "program your vcr". Easy to say, but tricky to actually do. First of all there's the choice of which Lisp implementation to use. Then there's the Emacs learning curve for those who've never used it before. Then there's the lack of documentation and help. Specifically, a lack of start-up guides that match your choice of OS and Lisp implementation. One way or the other, unless you're very lucky, getting a dev environment set up is going to involve a lot of trial and error and trips to forums for help. My advice is to be prepared to bang your head against the wall more that you're used to when learning a new language. But be patient. The light WILL go on and it will be worth it. I know. I've been there.

[@12345678905860]

What was your research?

[@Krishna-iy5wy]

Well, here I am in 2024!

[@wayneburbage8900]

This Guy Holds my attention But I dont know what he is saying, so I switch to Closed Caption and listen to music and watch . I see misspelling and comical words in the CC and I want to correct it mentally, The by-product of that is more amazement. and absorption.

[@MattSiegel]

"my dad did lisp in the '80s" haha! unintentional humor :D

[@KevinKopsa]

Anyone know what the rest of his answer to the very last question was? Essentially, answering: "Why doesn't everyone use Lisp?"

[@mrdarky3377]

Java

[@fastundercoverkitgoogle7381]

There must be some third-generation lisp programmers out there by now

[@derekfrost8991]

I'm here because I was learning JavaScript in 2012. Doug Crockford said in a talk that to be great in JavaScript we should really learn scheme. I did but after scheme & lisp, I never wanted to touch JavaScript again.. :)

[@obnoxiouslisper1548]

i am 13 and learning lisp

[@captaincaption]

@@obnoxiouslisper1548 how is your progress with LISP now?

[@DarkShroom]

ah i was just reading this guy online, nice one for a video to

[@-leovinci]

What can’t we do by Lisp? Something like Hadoop? I think the main unpopular reason is its macros are too flexible, so every coder has his own style, then not easy to work with other co-workers

[@wayneburbage8900]

I wonder where Fuzzy Logic would merge with this?

[@Spoonwood]

There's a recent book on Fuzzy Logic that uses NewLisp.

[@1stSilence]

thanks for sharing this video. much appreciated!

[@ruffianeo3418]

You can easily skip the first 15-20 minutes of the talk as it is nothing about lisp. I guess he was asked to talk about design patterns - maybe because it is an audience like that or maybe because he himself likes to talk about patterns.

[@MrJohnSaito]

21:17

[@yujc1]

Don't try to tell all in ur brain. Just start with a simple LISP line.

[@DarkShroom]

one of the few interesting programming talks

[@vram288]

36 good

[@wayneburbage8900]

Lisp Is helpful in the AI field.

[@FlashManinSpace]

Hardly. It was a good attempt but so far no programming paradigm is suitable for AI. Machine learning is still at it's infancy and it seem the only language that's braking any grounds into it is the Wolfram Language.

***** Arse.

[@bighands69]

+Flash Man Wolfram Language? You sound religious.

[@llothar68]

+Wayne Burbage AI is neither imperative nor functional, it's not even computational (in the sense of a von Neumann computer).

[@MMABeijing]

@@FlashManinSpace He was talking about AI, you are talking about ML. Different things