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My thoughts exactly, although expressed in a much more organized way. I love Lisp. I had a great time learning it, but its lack of momentum is a big problem.

• lithos 9y ago
  I liked Lisp when I played with it, but realized that when it came to things I shouldn't* play with I wouldn't be able to use it for any serious project. Seriously even lacking a socket api is a sad state for a language (if I want to look at multiple someone else's interesting code that actually does something how many low level communication frameworks am I going to need to know). *as in finical, security, encryption type of problems (that each require a decades worth of training/learning to start to get right) that can ruin life's and companies.
  • ealhad 9y ago
    Yes, I completely see your point. The main project I worked on to learn Common Lisp was the back-end of a web application ; I even had to compress data myself.
  • armitron 9y ago
    Common Lisp has multiple "socket apis", most of them well-documented, widely used, well-tested and robust. Your other point about "finical [sic], security, encryption-type problems" I do not understand at all since you do not go into any details. I've noticed that a lot of people will claim a lot of things when it comes to Lisp, but it is extremely rare that these claims have any merit whatsoever. More than often enough, those making the claims are obviously completely clueless and have never spent more than a couple of minutes [if that] looking at Lisp. Yet they feel confident making all sorts of false proclamations and spreading lies and misinformation.
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• jonsen 9y ago
  But, as he wrote, momentum would lead to even bigger problems.