Lisp project of the day

(40ants.com)

80 points by perihelions 25 July 2025 | 22 comments

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jksmith 25 July 2025
"An elegant weapon, for a more civilized age." Heavy opinion: Combined with AI, there is a story for unified app development. Something like Ada for the L1 and trust reciprocation, then something that creates app domain vocabularies for L2 development. That of course would be lisp.
vindarel 25 July 2025
It's great but some chosen libraries are a bit too random or early. You can look at a curated list of Common Lisp libraries here: https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl/
lispitillo 25 July 2025
Perhaps instead of coding many small one day projects one could program one day projects that compose with each other. For example, I was thinking about developing a library that implements a version of J in Common Lisp (but I think fuel is lacking) so that, for example, the one day project named random-sample could be just:

  randomSample =: 4 :'(x ? #y){y' NB. can't repeat.

  randomSample =: 4 :'(? x # #y){y' can repeat.

 So that, in many cases,  one day projects could be reduced to one or two lines definitions (for those that know J that is the caveat).