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Most people say that you shouldn't use lisp because it doesn't have libraries. Well they are only half right. You shouldn't use lisp, because most lisp librari
by vikram 20y ago
Most people say that you shouldn't use lisp because it doesn't have libraries. Well they are only half right.
You shouldn't use lisp, because most lisp libraries have
very little documentation. Lisp has a lot of libraries.
You have to be willing to read code (i.e. examples/tests)
to figure out how to use them.
http://www.cliki.net/Library http://www.cliki.net/Library
Assuming that the most precious commodity is development time.
I'd say rails/django don't even come close to UCW in getting
stuff done.
- rms 20y agoWhy is lisp so sparsely documented?
- jaggederest 20y ago(because-function-names-are-so-long-and-detailed 'post)
- vikram 20y agoFor me saying what a function does isn't good enough, when one is documenting an api. Examples are a must. The other problem is that the lisp packaging system is a bit weird. If a library doesn't have an ASDF definition its almost non-existent for me.