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Making Linked Lists on C-likes makes me appreciate Lisp even more (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 weeks ago by hello_hello@hexbear.net to c/programming@hexbear.net

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I get dizzy looking at C-like languages, they just feel incredibly hard to follow compared to an S-expression.

Everything this just so verbose and there's so much negative space between the lines. To be fair, this course is making us program using Java so maybe it has to do more with that.

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[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Re: readability

(defclass request ()
  ((url :reader request-url
        :initarg :url
        :type string
        :documentation "Request URL.")
   (method :reader request-method
           :initarg :method
           :initform :get
           :type keyword
           :documentation "Request method, e.g :get, :post.")
   (parameters :reader request-parameters
               :initarg :parameters
               :initform nil
               :type association-list
               :documentation "The request parameters, as an association list."))
  (:documentation "A general HTTP request."))

Also OOP can be used in lisp in addition to imperative and functional.