Let of Lambda, has anyone here read the book?

[der_gavio_fhurer]

What did you think?
What apps did you create?

[boris....@gmail.com]

Do You mean "Let Over Lambda" (http://letoverlambda.com/)?


- boris

[der_gavio_fhurer]

On Monday, January 28, 2013 1:52:15 AM UTC-8, boris....@gmail.com wrote:
> Do You mean "Let Over Lambda" (http://letoverlambda.com/)?
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yes

[Bigos]

On 28/01/13 06:02, der_gavio_fhurer wrote:
> What did you think?
> What apps did you create?
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The book is not supposed to teach you to create an application. It is
supposed to teach you to think about coding from totally different
perspective.

Using ideas from the book helped me to rewrite a 150 lines Ruby
application using less than 90 lines of Lisp code.

[Carlos]

[Bigos <ruby....@googlemail.com>, 2013-01-28 11:05]

But *longer* lines, surely ;)
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[Bigos]

*true* :-D

[Lars Brinkhoff]

Bigos <ruby....@googlemail.com> writes:
> The book is not supposed to teach you to create an application. It
> is supposed to teach you to think about coding from totally
> different perspective.

Agreed. In particular, it's a tribute to the power of macros. It may
not be a book for Lisp beginners, as it consciously breaks a lot of
CL conventions.

I really enjoyed the Forth stuff, even though that, too, is somewhat
idiosyncratic.

[der_gavio_fhurer]

What kinds of apps are made more simple by the book?
It seems to me that lisp apps are vertical scaled like run lisp on archlinux or bsd and write the app do do everything LAMP does for a website but in lisp and far fewer lines of code. Like cl-prevalence replaces postgresql or firebird db and then a lisp appserver and cache and or template in lisp to power fast maintinable website from free software.