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Common Lisp vs HAML: What are the differences?
What is Common Lisp? The modern, multi-paradigm, high-performance, compiled, ANSI-standardized descendant of the long-running family of Lisp programming languages. Lisp was originally created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs, influenced by the notation of Alonzo Church's lambda calculus. It quickly became the favored programming language for artificial intelligence (AI) research. As one of the earliest programming languages, Lisp pioneered many ideas in computer science, including tree data structures, automatic storage management, dynamic typing, conditionals, higher-order functions, recursion, and the self-hosting compiler. [source: wikipedia].
What is HAML? HTML Abstraction Markup Language - A Markup Haiku. Haml is a markup language that’s used to cleanly and simply describe the HTML of any web document, without the use of inline code. Haml functions as a replacement for inline page templating systems such as PHP, ERB, and ASP. However, Haml avoids the need for explicitly coding HTML into the template, because it is actually an abstract description of the HTML, with some code to generate dynamic content.
Common Lisp and HAML can be categorized as "Languages" tools.
"Flexibility" is the top reason why over 13 developers like Common Lisp, while over 66 developers mention "Clean and simple" as the leading cause for choosing HAML.
HAML is an open source tool with 3.44K GitHub stars and 544 GitHub forks. Here's a link to HAML's open source repository on GitHub.
Kickstarter, Code School, and StackShare are some of the popular companies that use HAML, whereas Common Lisp is used by Real Softservice, NG Informática, and Platform Project. HAML has a broader approval, being mentioned in 113 company stacks & 40 developers stacks; compared to Common Lisp, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.
Pros of Common Lisp
- Flexibility24
- High-performance22
- Comfortable: garbage collection, closures, macros, REPL17
- Stable13
- Lisp12
- Code is data8
- Can integrate with C (via CFFI)6
- Multi paradigm6
- Lisp is fun5
- Macros4
- Easy Setup4
- Parentheses3
- Open source3
- Purelly functional3
- Elegant3
- DSLs1
- Multiple values1
- CLOS/MOP1
- Clean semantics1
- Will still be relevant 100 years from now1
- Still decades ahead of almost all programming languages1
- Best programming language1
- Simple syntax1
- Powerful1
- Generic functions1
- Can implement almost any feature as a library1
- Formal specification, multiple implementations1
Pros of HAML
- Clean and simple68
- No html open/close tags49
- Easier to write than ERB39
- Forces clean and readable code36
- Simpler markup language34
- Open Source24
- HTML Templating16
- You'll love it if you like Haikus1
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Cons of Common Lisp
- Too many Parentheses4
- Standard did not evolve since 19943
- Small library ecosystem2
- No hygienic macros2
- Inadequate community infrastructure1
- Ultra-conservative community1
Cons of HAML
- It's not Pug3
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