Blog Entry: The Roots of LISP

This blog entry is a little different to the ones that I've recently published through the course, it also helps to give a point of view of how the course has progressed from my point of view and not only for learning a new programming language but also as an opportunity to understand a different way to solve problems.

I would like to talk in this blog entry about my experience with Clojure and also that is related to LISP language (and the reading too, because most of the reading is about some expressions created by John McCarthy, in some way what I can see is that Clojure was based on an interesting language that is LISP, creating elements over Lists is something that is not normally used in traditional programming but in this case demonstrates that it can be solved with vectors and lists, I consider that solving problems with this kind of method looks like something that even with mathematical problems with traditional could be solved, but in this I think that using a language like LISP or Clojure could be easier or even faster (without consuming too many elements of the system) than programming a full program on Java or even on C, we know that these languages works closely as a high level programming, but why not use something that is dedicated to these kind of problems?

Well, it's possible and what I can see here is that learning ways to create functions where solving problems that goes from a Fibonacci sequence to a simple addition could be easier than it looks, even creating recursive functions (something that could be complicated on traditional) helps to solve the problem with more elements on the list.

It's true that we already learned the basic elements and an API to use for solving problems, I would like to learn more things about Clojure not only during this semester, but also for the next months as an opportunity to learn more stuff or even learn the original one that is LISP.



One more thing as an special mention (meanwhile I was working on this blog and reading). Congratulations to Guillermo del Toro for winning Best Movie and Best Director with the Shape of Water on the Oscar awards, something that demonstrates and shows that mexicans can supass its limits and with hard work we can create things that is something to talk here in Mexico and across the world.