On Lisp

I have a fascination with Lisp / lisp like languages. This started way back when I joined the Emacs religion, part of the initiatiion is to configure your IDE via macros! Much later I tried creating (and failed to maintain) a emacs package that would interact with Bugzilla.

Another experiment was to use a Sawfish Window Manager , which is highly configurable via a lisp like programming language rep. This was the early days of Linux desktop, with a plethora of window managers.

As of today I have been programming with Clojure for few months now. A lot has been written about pro’s and con’s of Clojure. However in this post I want to share with you why Lisp from a perl programmer’s perspective (perl is the one language I revert to for any proof-of-concept project) - Why Lisp macros are cool, a Perl perspective

I’ll leave this quote from the link above, which is a sufficient reason for me to stick with lisp:

Source code generation is unreliable and inadvisable in every language except Lisp.