{"id":24697,"date":"2019-10-14T11:42:35","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T15:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=24697"},"modified":"2019-10-13T01:45:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T05:45:08","slug":"c-and-java-coders-a-new-dialect-of-lisp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/14\/c-and-java-coders-a-new-dialect-of-lisp\/","title":{"rendered":"C and Java coders: a new dialect of Lisp"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you weren&#8217;t persuaded by the existing 100+ dialects of Lisp that have been created over the years, <a href=\"http:\/\/paulgraham.com\/bel.html\">Bel<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Graham_(programmer)\">Paul Graham<\/a> should change your mind and lure you aware from the dark and tedious arts of C and Java.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After you&#8217;ve saved bigly in development time on your next project, you can thank me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you weren&#8217;t persuaded by the existing 100+ dialects of Lisp that have been created over the years, Bel from Paul Graham should change your mind and lure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-nerdism"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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