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What is the point of the if __name__ == "__main__":, i.e. why use a file as both script and module?
The Lissp transpiler incrementally compiles and executes each top-level form to Python. It needs to do this in case there's a macro definition that might affect the compilation of a subsequent form. If it's only executing definitions, this is harmless, but if you want to precompile the main module, it needs the guard, or the side effects will happen too.
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What's the most hilarious use of operator overloading you've seen?
If you want Python to be as customizable as Lissp, check out Hissp (and Hebigo).
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Want cleaner code? Use the rule of six
Python's lambdas can have as many lines as you want. Just wrap parens around it. Hissp uses this form as a compilation target. Its REPL shows the Python compilation. Play around with it til you get it: https://github.com/gilch/hissp
- What would be your “perfect” programming language?
- Kamby – A programming language based on Lisp that doesn't seems like Lisp
- Wisp: Whitespace to Lisp
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Is ECMAScript really a dialect of Lisp?
The original Lisp's S-expression syntax was just supposed to be an intermediate language used by the compiler when processing the real language based on M-expressions, which kind of never took off. Numerous alternatives to S-expressions have been proposed, and some retain homoiconicity, another feature diagnostic of a Lisp (and one that ECMAScript lacks). For example, see Hebigo's readme, which shows a direct correspondence between its Python-like syntax and that of Hissp's default reader (Lissp), which uses the S-expressions. Julia can also be written in S-expressions, but this usually only used in macro definitions.
- Why Hy?
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Land of Lisp
I think LoL is too CL-specific. If you know both languages first, you can pretty much translate, but since they'd be trying to learn Lisp in the first place, this is a bad idea.
On the other hand, [Hissp][1] has a pretty good tutorial for anyone coming from a Python background.
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Interesting or distinctive lisps?
Hebigo: a whitespaceLisp isomorphic to Hissp that looks like Python.
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What are some alternatives?
hy - A dialect of Lisp that's embedded in Python
smart-imports - smart imports for Python
hy-lisp-python - examples for my book "A Lisp Programmer Living in Python-Land: The Hy Programming Language"
linqit - Extend python lists operations using .NET's LINQ syntax for clean and fast coding.
slime - The Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Emacs
smtfmt - An SMT-LIB formatter.
hissp - It's Python with a Lissp.
coalton - Coalton is an efficient, statically typed functional programming language that supercharges Common Lisp.
awesome-functional-python - A curated list of awesome things related to functional programming in Python.
TailRec.jl - A tail recursion optimization macro for julia.