Comments on Vagmi's musings: How I started off with Haskell and wound up with L...

Bizarre! I am doing the "48 hours ..." Haskell tut...

2007-10-16T05:01:00.000-07:00

Bizarre! I am doing the "48 hours ..." Haskell tutorial at the moment as well, and I read this ... !

Strangely, I find Lisp more productive. But there ...

2007-10-15T23:52:00.000-07:00

Strangely, I find Lisp more productive. But there is a BIG catch with Lisp. But libraries are a problem. I guess it is particularly to do with Common Lisp. May be Scheme is better.

As far is absolute productivity is concerned for really important stuff, choose the language you are most comfortable with. My brain is very comfortable with Python AND Ruby. I find myself the most productive using Python.

If it is a pure choice between Haskell and Lisp, I would choose Lisp any day.

Vagmi -- out of interest, what did you find more p...

2007-10-15T23:37:00.000-07:00

Vagmi -- out of interest, what did you find more productive about Lisp than Haskell?

Hmm... thats strange. I never thought of it. I und...

2007-10-15T09:55:00.000-07:00

Hmm... thats strange. I never thought of it. I understand that common lisp evolved from Lisp Machines where Lisp was itself the operating system. But I believe that Common Lisp should add Process Management as a part of its hyperspec. You can learn a thing or two from Python's subprocess module.

>it is a horrible implementationI don't think horr...

2007-10-15T08:11:00.000-07:00

>it is a horrible implementation

I don't think horrible is the right word... CLISP is more like a scripting variant of LISP. For example it has way better support for calling external programs that SBCL.

Thanks a lot for the vim tip. But vim script is a ...

2007-10-15T07:47:00.000-07:00

Thanks a lot for the vim tip. But vim script is a little odd when compared to elisp. :-) I dont wish to start a flame war here. It is just my humble opinion.

"gj" moves down one "visual line" instead of actua...

2007-10-15T07:24:00.000-07:00

"gj" moves down one "visual line" instead of actual line, for short stuff. For longlines-mode, see this tip; in the comments somebody wraps it into a function.

Also, you find writing functions in vim hard work?

Thanks for the tip. Those are definitely on my rea...

2007-10-15T06:16:00.000-07:00

Thanks for the tip. Those are definitely on my reading list.

When your done with Sielbel book take a look at No...

2007-10-15T06:06:00.000-07:00

When your done with Sielbel book take a look at Norvig's "Paradigms of Artifical Intelligence Programming" (a lisp book). You might be able to find or download Paul Graham's excellent "On Lisp" too.

- I went the other way, from Lisp to Haskell :) but each to his or her own path.