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Lisps are great. Why do you think they haven't been at the forefront of any big trends in application development? Things like the web, mobile apps, data scienc
by shimon 8y ago
Lisps are great. Why do you think they haven't been at the forefront of any big trends in application development? Things like the web, mobile apps, data science ...
My guess at an argument here is that the languages popular in the 80s drove the curriculum design of most Computer Science education, and the relative absence of the Lisps (to today) makes the languages seem less approachable to practicing programmers than they really should be.
On the other hand, you can find a lot of Lisp's influence in something like Python (though obviously with many differences both superficial and deep). So in that case, why are Python IDEs so much worse than what you'd see in Lisp? (And is that even the case? Maybe there's just more Python devs and thus more IDEs and like anything, most are crap; but if there one or two great ones then does Lisp really have an advantage there?)