{"id":1305,"date":"2016-12-11T18:39:50","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T18:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2016-12-11T18:39:50","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T18:39:50","slug":"and-still-lisp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/2016\/12\/11\/and-still-lisp\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;and still lisp&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pulling in some open source common lisp source trees. Not sure whether windows or linux is a better target but for now I&#8217;m mostly running windows so I&#8217;ll start there.<\/p>\n<p>Quite a few options to choose from. I&#8217;ll probably poke at a few of them before I&#8217;m done. Currently seems to break out between:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Common Lisp<\/strong> running on various back-ends. Attractive because this seems to be the most &#8216;mainstream lisp&#8217; style. Seems to be sort of a super-set of everything that has gone into the list world pretty much ever.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Clojure<\/strong>\u00a0as a JVM based, functional programming oriented version of the language. Seems to be well supported and popular but I suspect that it has diverged significantly from its lisp origins. This was more attractive when I was working fro Amazon Robotics and everything I was doing professionally ran on the JVM. Still a nice language package&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scheme<\/strong>\u00a0appears to have been the first consistently lexically scoped lisp implementation. It seems to be in the process of forking into a slim, simple version channeling its roots as a teaching language and a bulkier but more capable language aiming more at the place the common lisps play.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I expect that these will keep me occupied through the end of the weekend (partly putting off diving deep into formally writing the DDL for my sandbox project&#8217;s schema) and perhaps even have one or two environments up and running.<\/p>\n<p>One thing that I&#8217;m wondering about is the suggestion I&#8217;ve seen in several sites that common lisp code gets distributed as a &#8216;live&#8217; workspace. I&#8217;ve become very used to the idea that there is a source code set that builds any particular version of the code being put together. I expect to have a bit of a struggle if lisp means adapting to a world where you can&#8217;t exactly rebuild your workspace from source without significant effort. More playing with these languages should tell me whether this impression is accurate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pulling in some open source common lisp source trees. Not sure whether windows or linux is a better target but for now I&#8217;m mostly running windows so I&#8217;ll start there. Quite a few options to choose from. I&#8217;ll probably poke at a few of them before I&#8217;m done. Currently seems to break out between: Common &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/2016\/12\/11\/and-still-lisp\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8230;and still lisp&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7F2Qc-l3","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1306,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions\/1306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}