If you're interested in Python and Lisp, Hy (https://github.com/hylang/hy) is great. They're welcoming and funny.
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A dialect of Lisp that's embedded in Python
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What it is
A dialect of Lisp that's embedded in Python
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Where it is used
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First of all, thanks for clearing things up about Lisp! I have a question which I think is the concern of many people in Data Science sector as well: I love the idea of Lisp…
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HN mentions by year79 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2013-06-23 01:26:32 UTC to 2024-09-23 18:44:38 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 16 | 2 | 14 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 3 | 4 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 3 | 3 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 9 | 2 | 7 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 10 | 1 | 9 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 1 | 5 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 1 | 5 |
From the project README
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Read the project’s introduction
Hy
Lisp and Python should love each other. Let's make it happen.
Hy is a Lisp dialect that's embedded in Python. Since Hy transforms its Lisp code into Python abstract syntax tree (AST) objects, you have the whole beautiful world of Python at your fingertips, in Lisp form.
To install the latest release of Hy, just use the command pip3 install --user hy. Then you can start an interactive read-eval-print loop (REPL) with the command hy, or run a Hy program with hy myprogram.hy.
The Hy homepage
Try Hy with a web console
Project
Code: https://github.com/hylang/hy
Documentation: http://hylang.org/hy/doc
Bug reports: We have no bugs! Your bugs are your own! (https://github.com/hylang/hy/issues)
License: MIT (Expat)
Community: Join us on Github Discussions
Stack Overflow: The [hy] tag
Hy's current maintainer is Kodi Arfer. He takes responsibility for answering user questions, which should primarily be asked on Stack Overflow or GitHub Discussions, but feel free to poke him if he's missed a question or you've found a serious security issue.
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Read the full README on GitHubWhat Hacker News says
4 sourcesMaybe you will like Hy. It's a Python import hook that allows you to load files with a syntax similar to Clojure into Python. It also has an interpreter, so it can work as a standalone language or just dropped in Python projects. And it's not just the syntax, you can of course use Lisp macros!
https://github.com/hylang/hy
In Scheme vs. Python (2011)cough
I'd love to say it's possible, but with a few modifications.
https://github.com/hylang/hy
http://docs.hylang.org/en/latest/language/api.html?highlight...
In Why Lisp?For even more fun, checkout hy (https://github.com/hylang/hy). It's completely compatible with standard python both ways (ie you can import python from hy and import hy from python), so you can import python-sh and do awesome stuff like:
(import [sh [cat grep wc]])
(->
(cat "/usr/share/dict/words")
(grep "-E" "^hy")
(wc "-l"))
In Common Lisp as a Scripting Language, 2015 Edition