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I did see http://www.lispworks.com/products/myths_and_legends.html http://www.lispworks.com/products/myths_and_legends.html but would like to see HN's input on
by newman314 17y ago
I did see http://www.lispworks.com/products/myths_and_legends.html http://www.lispworks.com/products/myths_and_legends.html but would like to see HN's input on where Lisp would be useful in today's web world of <insert web20 catchphrase> of tools.
PS: I know asking a question like this may cause some emotional responses but I am genuinely interested in use cases for Lisp. Thanks in advance.
- runevault 17y agoExploratory programming, where you have an idea but are not sure how to get there, is an area where lisps arguably outshine everything else. Thanks to macros you can shape the way your code looks to fit the domain you are working in to pretty extensive degrees. When you throw in the power something like Clojure gives you, with lisp style syntax and macros but access to all the libraries on the JVM (including Jetty/Hadoop/etc) you can accomplish a lot.