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Lisps can do anything other general purpose language can accomplish. People still overwhelmingly choose other languages.
by parfe 10y ago
Lisps can do anything other general purpose language can accomplish. People still overwhelmingly choose other languages.
- Retric 10y agoLisps != lisp programs. Lisp lets programmers treat their code as data to be edited at runtime. Which is a different model than say Java. The advantage is individual programmers can be more productive, but it becomes really hard to share code as every program evolves into it's own language.
- progman 10y agoWhen C++ and Java (the current industry standards) have adopted the last feature of Lisp then the world will realize that it actually wanted Lisp after all :-)