In the CS 5010 – Programming Design Paradigm course, we need write tons of documents, repeat ourselves again and again, so I develop this snippet to save us time. If you using vim, you need install snipMate first, You can get the snippet on my Github: https://github.com/guanlan/snippet-for-racket download the snippet file and put in ~/.vim/snippets/ You can watch demo here
Category: Lisp
Rethink in Functional Languages
After about 3 months to learn and using Racket (a programming language in Lisp/Scheme family), I learning lots of concepts of programming. The most important thing in FL(functional languages) is: “All data are immutable. All functions are pure.“ Immutable Data Immutable data cannot be modified after being created. It has many advantages: Inherently Thread safety Parallel programming is the nightmare
How to use Python like Lisp
Lisp has some very effective way to get jobs done, this article give you a direct way to use Python like Lisp. cons = lambda el, lst: (el, lst) mklist = lambda *args: reduce(lambda lst, el: cons(el, lst), reversed(args), None) car = lambda lst: lst[0] if lst else lst cdr = lambda lst: lst[1] if