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I wonder how this approach scales to large code bases maintained by global teams. Instead of the usual discovery that each contractor or "rockstar" programmer c
by cornholio 9y ago
I wonder how this approach scales to large code bases maintained by global teams. Instead of the usual discovery that each contractor or "rockstar" programmer created modules using their preferred language or in vogue technology, you might now find they derived their own obscure language flavors that read right to left and use "=" for function calls.
In large projects, readability and maintainability trump expressibility.
- cat199 9y ago> In large projects, readability and maintainability trump expressibility. and neither is a substitute for proper governance...
- yomly 9y agoNaughty Dog seem like a relatively large team. If you're thinking a megacorp tech team, there seems to be few examples of truly large successful Lisp projects, though it will be interesting to see how some of the growing Clojure companies get on in the next 5-10 years.