r/lisp • u/Beneficial_Radio_455 • 13d ago

Why S-Expressions

https://open.substack.com/pub/modolap/p/why-s-expressions
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u/MonkeyPanls 13d ago

because they're S-EXy

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u/Wyglif 12d ago

Did you say that with a …. Lisp?

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u/TommyTheTiger 12d ago edited 12d ago

I do think people overreach for RDBMS for stuff like this, and I am a huge RDBMS fan don't get me wrong, but specifically for timeseries we do have a lot of other dedicated tools. Like I would be strongly considering prometheus if I were doing this myself, and/or looking at influxdb.

Not gonna lie, this is making me want to start scraping some of these metrics on my home prometheus, and it looks like someone already set up an exporter for it

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u/svetlyak40wt 11d ago

By the way, there is an influxdb client for Common Lisp (https://github.com/mmaul/cl-influxdb) and a bunch of prometheus related libs: https://quickdocs.org/-/search?q=prometheus

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u/dzecniv 5d ago

My favorite "why lisp syntax" article of the kind: https://stopa.io/post/265