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It's mentioned at the top of the linked page, but just to highlight it, this is only an excerpt from the longer piece "Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big
by kbp 9y ago
It's mentioned at the top of the linked page, but just to highlight it, this is only an excerpt from the longer piece "Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big" which was written in 1991 and talks at length about the then-current state of the Lisp world and its future. The full article is well worth a read: https://dreamsongs.com/WIB.html https://dreamsongs.com/WIB.html
- zeveb 9y ago> The full article is well worth a read: https://dreamsongs.com/WIB.html https://dreamsongs.com/WIB.html Agreed. It’s notable (among many other things) for its comment in 3.1, ‘Scheme is a smaller Lisp, but it also suffers from the MIT approach. It is too tight and not appropriate for large-scale software.’ I’m always a bit saddened when I see a production system written in Scheme instead of Lisp. His thoughts in 3.6 are very interesting, too. From his thoughts on method definitions, it sounds like maybe he wanted a language-specified dynamic editing environment. Either way, it’s sad that the Lisp world never came out with a proper successor to Common Lisp. It’s by far the best general-purpose language out there today, but it is not the best possible.
- nabla9 9y agoAnd the longer piece you mention was just the starting point of long discussion. Read the whole thing: https://dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html https://dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html