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		opportune on July 27, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It's 2023, so of course I'm learning Common Lisp Thanks for the answer! Your word scramble game in particular seems like something that approximates my “maybe not a good fit for FP” bucket. Do you plan on sharing it on GitHub or describing the challenges you ran into? Completely agree code generation is where I expect Lisp to perform the best. Though, I looked it up and apparently Markdown is not context-free so.. curious as to the challenges that introduces as I figure FP could zap through parsing a CFG but really struggle with state for something not context free

schemescape on July 27, 2023 [–]

Note that Common Lisp doesn’t require functional programming. Mutation, side effects, etc. are fine. I just write imperative code for the most part.

My code was quick and dirty, so I don’t think anyone will learn anything from it, but it’s here: https://github.com/jaredkrinke/thirteen-letters

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