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Giovanny Gongora
November 15, 2018
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Road to LISP heaven
Presented: Pataconf 2018
Giovanny Gongora
November 15, 2018
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Transcript
Road to LISP heaven
The ((( ))) language
The ((( ))) language
Why talk about LISP? • Want to learn more about
programming languages • Understand why we do something today • What is the purpose and behavior with something • It’s fun, why no? :)
What is this talk about? • Language history • Context
about design decisions • Understand which LISP concepts are good for • Think about new data reference patterns ready • No rants plz
History/Context
• Let’s travel to 1930s
• Let’s travel to 1930s • New Princeton offices
• Let’s travel to 1930s • New Princeton offices •
Alonzo Church
• Let’s travel to 1930s • New Princeton offices •
Alonzo Church • Lambda Calculus
• Let’s travel to 1930s • New Princeton offices •
Alonzo Church • Lambda Calculus • World War II
• Let’s travel to 1930s • New Princeton offices •
Alonzo Church • Lambda Calculus • World War II • Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer (EDVAC)
• Let’s travel to 1930s • New Princeton offices •
Alonzo Church • Lambda Calculus • World War II • Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer (EDVAC) • 1958 unveiled List Processing language (Lisp)
Learn to read LIPS in one example
f(4, 2)
(f 4, 2)
(60 * 9 / 5) + 32
(+ (* (/ 9 5) 60) 32)
You already know LISP :)
(+ 2 2)
4
(= (+ 2 2) (* 2 2))
True
(first (list ‘a ‘b ‘c))
a
(define patacones 6) (define chorizos 5) (if (> patacones chorizos)
(printf "Patacones!") (printf “Chorizos!”))
Patacones!
((define (dbl x) (* 4 x)) (dbl 10)
40
Interesting facts about LISP • Comments are made using ;
• Defined only atom, eq, cons, car, and cdr • Functions were intended to create the whole language
What made LISP “different”?
• Conditionals
• Conditionals • A function type
• Conditionals • A function type • Recursion
• Conditionals • A function type • Recursion • New
concept of variables
• Conditionals • A function type • Recursion • New
concept of variables • Garbage Collection
• Conditionals • A function type • Recursion • New
concept of variables • Garbage Collection • Composed expressions
• Conditionals • A function type • Recursion • New
concept of variables • Garbage Collection • Composed expressions • Literal data structures
(macros) You can change the language, implement your own features,
or even write a new programming language
Scheme vs Common lisp
Common Lisp
Scheme
Functional Programming & Lambda calculus & LISP
• Not all lambda calculus ideas transform to practice •
Functional programming is a set of ideas, not a set of strict guidelines • Concurrency is a win
Thanks Giovanny Gongora @Gioyik