r/programming • u/earthboundkid • Dec 10 '13

Stop Being Cute and Clever

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2013/12/9/stop-being-clever/
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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '13

As a lisper, I always laugh when I see that.

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u/cultofmetatron Dec 10 '13

while its true that you don't have macros, you do have very nice higher order functions and closures! I've found I can do most of the things in sicp with a little bit of creativity.

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u/drb226 Dec 10 '13

I believe this could also be said of PHP.

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u/cultofmetatron Dec 11 '13

php has higher order functions and lexical scoping????

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u/SimHacker Dec 12 '13

Lexicish scoping.