Yeah! Six months after graduating from Northwestern University I quit my cushy 6-figure WFH job to move to Finland as a quasi-illegal immigrant. (I say "quasi-" because "STEM undergrad from a top university moving to a much poorer country" is, ah, not what you usually think of.) I was unemployed for over a year due to passport issues, living in a tiny vacation town of ~10,000 close to the Arctic Circle, and used... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

If anyone else is wondering, it looks like HPFFP is "Haskell Programming from First Principles" :) https://haskellbook.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

Forget about C++. Pick up a copy of Modern Programming Languages: A Practical Introduction. Learn SML; forget about the rest of the chapters. Then, learn Haskell from this book. Optionally work through this book. Optionally read through SICP (not recommended). Source: about 1 year ago

Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell is a fantastic resource for learning some of the more interesting bits of Haskell at a low level. I usually recommend it as a second book after Haskell Programming from First Principles, which is a super comprehensive and meaty intro to Haskell. Source: about 1 year ago

I would suggest that you learn Haskell first as a programming language and ignore type level programming. A good introduction to Haskell may be helpful to you: https://haskellbook.com/. Source: over 1 year ago

Tangential: if we're talking Lisp and native code speed, Steel Bank Common Lisp (by default) compiles everything to machine code. [0] https://sbcl.org. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

Q5: Get http://sbcl.org/. Install https://quicklisp.org/. SBCL is the implementation that's the lowest friction, and Quicklisp is a package manager that's almost* painless. Source: about 1 year ago

That is what we do in Lisp. Try sbcl if you haven't tried it yet. Source: about 1 year ago

I want to add the sbcl-doc subpackage (the manual for SBCL in GNU Info format), but first I need to understand how to write package definitions. As far as I understand there are the "templates" which are shell scripts that describe how a package is to be built and installed, and xbps-src is a shell script which can process these templates to actually carry out the work. Source: over 2 years ago

> Lisp looks like Python, that's far from C, and usually it's a "interpreted" language, far from machine the currently most popular Common Lisp implementation is based around an optimizing native code compiler. That compiler has its roots in the early 80s. See https://sbcl.org . It's far away from being 'interpreted'. - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago