On: Lisping at JPL (2002)

[maliker]

Sounds like the lisp programmer skillset doesn't have a strong overlap with the java/python/javascript programmer skillset. Makes me want to learn more lisp. :)

[dreamcompiler → maliker]

There is some overlap with javascript because it's the only one of the three that offers uncrippled lambdas. Or I may be wrong about that; did Java finally add them?

[mst → dreamcompiler]

ES6 offers sane lambdas via => and lexical scoping via let.

I can actually program in it without wanting to stab myself, which has previously mostly been limited to perl and various lisps ;)

[skissane → dreamcompiler]

Java has had lambdas since Java 8. (I don’t know if you’d consider them “crippled” or not; they are less crippled than Python’s.)

[cbsmith → skissane]

Even before Java 8, Java had inner classes that if you squinted at them right looked like very syntactically awkward lambdas (indeed, Java 8 lambdas compile down to something that looks an awfully lot like an inner class).