newbie to lisp

[Pascal Bourguignon]

Le 04/06/2022 à 09:59, Angelo Moreschini a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> I am a programmer of imperative languages and I would like to improve my 
> (currently scarce) knowledge of <declarative> programming techniques, 
> starting with the lisp language.
> 
> I have a degree in mathematics and I would like to attend chats where we 
> can talk about this type of approach to programming.
> 
> Thanks for any help and suggestions.


http://cliki.net/Getting+Started
http://cliki.net/IRC

Note: lisp is not particularly declarative (it's not particularly 
anything in fact), but it is possible to write lisp code in declarative 
style (or in any other style you want).

That's one advantage of lisp: you can use any style you want or need, 
depending on your current problem, even you can use multiple styles in 
the same program.

Declarative programming style will rely on code = data and the fact that 
lisp programs are written actually as lisp data.

So you can write declarations in form of symbolic expressions aka 
s-expressions aka sexps, and write little interpreters or translators 
for those declarative forms to implement their semantics.

-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__