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You are misunderstanding his point. Lisp used to be awesome because it implemented feature X. That is, show people feature X in Lisp, and they would be impresse
by likpok 17y ago
You are misunderstanding his point. Lisp used to be awesome because it implemented feature X. That is, show people feature X in Lisp, and they would be impressed because nothing else did X.
Now, everything does X. Showing someone Lisp doing X will get the response of 'So what?'. Therefore, Lisp is no longer awesome because of feature X.
- lispm 17y agoYou are misunderstanding the original point. Lisp has certain qualities that are rare, designed in a special way and work together in special ways. Almost none of the mainstream scripting languages uses simple code as data as Lisp does. Not Ruby. Not Python. Not PHP. Not JavaScript. None of them have the roots in a meta-circular interpreter that fits on a page. http://arcfn.com/2008/07/maxwells-equations-of-software-examined.html http://arcfn.com/2008/07/maxwells-equations-of-software-exam... None of those allow me to write symbolic computations in a simple and straight forward way like I can do it in Lisp. I find that awesome.
- likpok 17y agoWhich is different (entirely) from what the article was saying. It listed off several things which current languages do. What (someone) up the chain was saying was exactly that. Lisp is interesting because of those things that it alone does. Not because it is capable of things that other languages do.