• Solaris1789@jlai.lu
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    1 year ago

    As a parentheses hater my personal hell would be having to audit and refactor a lisp codebase

    • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      My work maintains a legacy AutoCAD addin written in Lisp… we are considering dropping support because it’s so difficult to maintain with the original dev gone

      • Kale@lemmy.zip
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        Oof. Is that the official plugin language? Siemens NX uses “grip” which is a fork of TCL. And they require purchase of a pricy package to sign and compile code so NX will run it, so we only had one programmer for our custom grip functions.

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      I have fond memories of RPL on the HP48 calculators where you would give arguments as a stack, then call the function. Something like (a+b)*c could be written C A B + * Such fun!

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          That’s the one. The Wikipedia article has some extensive examples, too.

          Its weird syntax prepared us well to face the horror of assembly language later on, so I have a certain fondness for it. That and I had absolutely no point of comparison at the time, haha!

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      I personally find ((f) 1) easier to read. You just go inside out, evaluate f, then pass 1 as the argument to the output of f. There’s no ambiguity regarding order of evaluation there.