Xah Talk Show 2024-06-11 Ep558, Which is Best Lisp? Common Lisp, Scheme, Elisp, Clojure, Wolfram Language

• Timestamp
• 0:26 keyboard glove80, uhk, svalboard
• 1:26 lisps
• 1:44 common lisp
• 2:12 scheme racket lisp
• 4:42 scheme call-cc
• 8:03 emacs lisp
• 12:09 clojure
• 14:55 cons cells
• 21:04 why common lisp sucks
• 24:48 threads
• 27:08 common lisp object system
• 29:15 why setf sucks
• 45:52 Wolfram language lisp
• 47:38 lisp macros vs term rewrite
• 52:23 lisp's list vector association hashtable
• 1:00:42 emacs lisp is better than all for this
• 1:02:47 java to clojure
• 1:03:31 erik naggum
• 1:04:29 fundamental problem of lisp

# x = 3
# print( x )

xlist = [3, 4, 5]
print( xlist )

xlist[0] = 99
print( xlist )

;; (setq x 3)
;; (print x)

(setq xlist (list 3 4 5))
(print xlist)

;; with this setf, the lisp expression changed meaning, depending on its context
(setf (elt xlist 0) 99)
(print xlist)

• Famous Programers on How Common Lisp Sucks
• Controversy of Common Lisp Package in Emacs Lisp
• Thoughts on Common Lisp Scheme Lisp Based Emacs
• Elisp: Why Common Lisp Sucks

• Elisp: Cons Cell

• Clojure Tutorial

• Java Tutorial
• Java: Interface

• LISP vs WolframLang
• WolframLang: Syntax, Operators Cheatsheet
• WolframLang: FullForm vs Short Syntax Example
• WolframLang: Association (Key Value List)

• Fundamental Problems of Lisp
• Elisp: Sequence Functions