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Don't you think the burden of proof is the other way around? We see selection effects all the time. Shouldn't you expect super programmers to get more done be
by three14 16y ago
Don't you think the burden of proof is the other way around? We see selection effects all the time. Shouldn't you expect super programmers to get more done because they're simply better programmers?
It's a strawman argument to say that, "well, Lisp is more powerful than assembly." Of course. But is it more powerful than C#? Maybe, but the Lisp advocate should be the one asked for proof.
- crazydiamond 16y agoiirc, the Lisp guy did offer some proof. Like macros. One aspect that should be remembered is availability of libraries to do your tasks. I've read that CL just did not have a good enough set to use. Reddit was written in Lisp and then moved to python. One reason was threads, the other was that py had a lot of stable libs that could be reused.