LRN: APRIL 16-17, 2024
Returning to the land of LISP
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Yesterday, I sat down to start work again on my small home-IoT UDP
protocol. I hadn't covered much ground in the work. I had boilerplate
code mostly working with LuaSockets and LuaFileSystem. I had selected
an appropriate version of Lua (5.2), and gotten its environment and
modules setup. I had chosen Lua because of its beautiful, brief syntax
and its elegant single datastructure, tables. Lua is one of my
favorite languages. But I just couldn't get myself excited to use it
for this project. For one: t can't do proper multithreading, far as I
know. This means I would have to find clever ways to handle the many
datagrams I expected to send from my devices. Anyways, I finally
decided to move the project over to the Land of LISP.
I love LISPs. My brain is so much more adept at working with conses,
parens, and the functional style this family of languages is often
know to embody. Around this time last I was covering lots of ground in
my pursuit of CommonLisp by reading about ANSI CommonLisp and the
CLOS. At some point it fizzled out, and I struggled against myself
going back to it for some time. I don't know why. Maybe because it
feels so niche.
Anyways, yesterday I came to the conclusion that LISP will be my focus
for some time. If I need something done, I'm going to write it in a
LISP. I am just so tired of popular, ugly languages like Python, which
portend to be a swiss army knife when in fact it is a bunch of garbage
heaped together looking like modern art. LISP is a happy place for
me. CommonLisp especially, which I have working with Emacs and SBCL
immediately flawlessly.
Today I got a late start to my studies--I glanced over the `usocket'
library. So not much progress to my learning goals. But I reckon
having come to a singular familiar focus for the structure and
expression of my keystrokes will prove nourishing.
LISP!