hy-lisp-python
examples for my book "A Lisp Programmer Living in Python-Land: The Hy Programming Language" (by mark-watson)
hebigo
蛇語(HEH-bee-go): An indentation-based skin for Hissp. (by gilch)
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hy-lisp-python
Posts with mentions or reviews of hy-lisp-python.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-04.
- Important update to install info for my book "A Lisp Programmer Living in Python-Land: The Hy Programming Language"
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Hy: A dialect of Lisp that's embedded in Python
If you do not use the contributed “let” macro, then auto generated Python code from Hy source code looks fine. If you look at the GitHub repo for the Hy book I wrote, you will see a Makefile target for generating Python code from the Hy examples: https://github.com/mark-watson/hy-lisp-python
hebigo
Posts with mentions or reviews of hebigo.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-26.
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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.
[1]: https://github.com/gilch/hissp
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Interesting or distinctive lisps?
Hebigo: a whitespaceLisp isomorphic to Hissp that looks like Python.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing hy-lisp-python and hebigo you can also consider the following projects:
hissp - It's Python with a Lissp.
hy - A dialect of Lisp that's embedded in Python
gomacro - Interactive Go interpreter and debugger with REPL, Eval, generics and Lisp-like macros
slime - The Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Emacs
astor - Python AST read/write
smtfmt - An SMT-LIB formatter.
smart-imports - smart imports for Python
hyLittleSchemer - Little Schemer in Hy
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.