I was slightly shocked when a Common Lisper first pointed out to me that macros are syntactic. For example, threading macros aren't limited to function composition.
(->> "UTC"
(current-time-string (current-time))
(lambda ()))
This elisp is building a closure!
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I've heard of the "three-star C programmer" https://wiki.c2.com/?ThreeStarProgrammer but I think we should have "three semicolon lisper". When you're organising your code in sections, you're building major projects!
The Guile contributors are some extremely talented lispers. Missing a parenthesis in lisp docs is done by every lisper once in a while though :)
I'm a lisper who has spend a little over six months getting up to speed in OCaml, and it's been really interesting. It's been unlike anything I've used before. Thread. https://twitter.com/ShriramKMurthi/status/1088615402551341056