How Lisp changed my style

Jan 11 2010 Tags: Computer programming, food for thought, Functional programming, Languages, life, Lisp

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This is the first post in the series of How <x> changed my style where I shall talk about tools and events that had a significant impact on my style of doing things. If you happen to like this idea, I would be very happy if you could help it spread like wildfire, because it’s a form of pay-it-forward where we say Thanks for cool stuff.

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5 responses so far

http://animalija.sopca.com Krof Drakula

I wouldn’t say a specific language influenced me personally, but rather specific language features and concepts; being language-agnostic has its merits, and for me, lambda expressions and first-class objects were the defining moment.
http://swizec.com Swizec

Well I’ve always been language-agnostic to an extent, but this is the first time in my life I’m becoming paradigm-agnostic as well and it’s a big big difference.
http://jankom-code.posterous.com jankom

too bad python (from your examples) is one of the poorest dynamic languages these days where you can experiment with your new learned FP-ness.
sb

import operator

reduce(operator.add, tags.itervalues())/len(tags)

I prefer to omit lambda where possible (especially in Python where naming that construct lambda is cruel joke).
Simon

The only language that needs to force me into any kind of perversions is asm But few months ago i discovered groovy (obviously, because I am a java fan ) and it totally rocked my boat. Now I’m looking at scala. It comes as no surprise, taht scala can be at times even faster than java.

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