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Journal by turgid
Which LISP should I learn? Years ago I read about Scheme and wrote some hello world level code. I learned about lambda functions and currying. I also looked at racket. A few years ago, much of my day job involved the JVM and I was getting sick of Java so I got a book on Clojure, which is a very nice language, but I never wrote any.
A few days ago I downloaded and built the latest version of DrRacket.
Should I go straight to Haskell? Or what about other functional languages? Is Erlang worth a look?
I need something stimulating to distract my brain from the mundane nature of everyday life, and mediocre programming languages.
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Hand me a pair of leather pants and a CASIO keyboard -- I'm living for today!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by hendrikboom on Monday November 29 2021, @07:41PM (1 child)
Racket has mechanisms for implementing new languages on top of the built-in Racket base. It's been used for implementing Algol 60, for example.
But most of the Racket-built languages are similar in syntax to Racket, such as typed Racket.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 29 2021, @09:56PM
There is something nice about the fact that a statically-typed Racket could be called "Tracket." It sounds like "Track it" and lets you and the compiler keep track of what type each variable is.