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Lisp (historically LISP) is a family of programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized prefix notation. Originally specified in 1958, Lisp is the second-oldest high-level programming language. Only Fortran is older, by one year.

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If there is one Lisp function/macro/feature that you would like to see in a non-Lisp language, which one would it be? (lemmy.ml)
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This is another Friday social topic. You are aimlessly wandering around a beautiful hilltop by a sea when an angel approaches you from the opposite direction. She is no ordinary angel. She is a Lisp angel! She will grant one Lisp wish to you. Before she can fulfill your wish, she needs this information from you:

  1. Your favorite Lisp dialect.
  2. Your favorite non-Lisp programming language.
  3. Your favorite standard library function/macro/feature from your favorite Lisp dialect that you want to see in your favorite non-Lisp programming language.

Once you tell these 3 things to the angel, she will magically add your chosen feature to your chosen non-Lisp programming language.

What are your answers going to be?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)
  1. Common Lisp
  2. Haskell I guess
  3. defmacro. This would probably involve changing the syntax to list form like axel does.
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Haskell has macros under the name of Template Haskell

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

True. They are not near as nicely integrated as lisp macros though.