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Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functi
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Frank GOENNINGER |
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Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ? |
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Sun, 02 Jan 2011 15:07:02 +0100 |
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The Quiet Center <thequietcenter@gmail.com> writes:
> On Jan 1, 11:08 am, Nathan <nbeen...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> If you want a easy to read self-documenting functional language, look
>> into Ruby. I know personally that Ruby syntax was a big turn off to me
>> for several weeks (kind of like Lisp) but once you learn it, it
>> becomes the easiest to read of any programming language I've ever
>> experimented with. No contest.
>>
>
> Well, Python was chosen over Ruby for MIT's rework of their intro to
> cs course because Python is multi-paradigm, whereas Ruby claims
> everything is an object.
>
> How would you code this simple list compression problem in Ruby:
>
> 1.08 (**) Eliminate consecutive duplicates of list elements.
> If a list contains repeated elements they should be replaced with
> a single copy of the element. The order of the elements should not be
> changed.
>
> Example:
> ?- compress([a,a,a,a,b,c,c,a,a,d,e,e,e,e],X).
> X = [a,b,c,a,d,e]
>
>> Matz himself admitted that “...Ruby is a bad rip-off of Lisp... But it
>> is nicer to ordinary people.”
>
> yeah I guess the LOOP macro is where I got stuck in doing Lisp.
Simple:
? (defun compress (list)
(let ((last-element)
(result))
(loop for element in list
when (not (equal last-element element))
do
(progn
(setq last-element element)
(push element result)))
(reverse result)))
COMPRESS
? (setq list (list 'a 'a 'a 'a 'b 'c 'c 'a 'a 'd 'e 'e 'e 'e))
(A A A A B C C A A D E E E E)
? (compress list)
(A B C A D E)
'compress can be done in much more terse way in Lisp but this is just an
example using the Loop macro.
Frank
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