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Actually, despite all the fanfare about LISP, Haskell, Scheme et al, more useful programs have been written and deployed in, say, Python, than all those combine
by foljs 16y ago
Actually, despite all the fanfare about LISP, Haskell, Scheme et al, more useful programs have been written and deployed in, say, Python, than all those combined.
What's the last useful LISP program you have used? What proportion does it consist among the other useful programs you use?
- j_baker 16y agoEmacs (ok, so it has a kernel of C code but it's still by and large a lisp program)
- andolanra 16y agoI use Scheme/Haskell for most of my scripting purposes, the only exceptions being the cases where I want to make use of some extant library, in which case I switch to Python/Ruby. I used stumpwm for a while, which was written in Common Lisp, and a few months ago switched to XMonad, which is all Haskell. All my editing is done in Emacs, which uses a variety of Lisp (elisp.) Given that close to 100% of my time is spent in XMonad, and >50% of my time is spent in Emacs, and every session involves at least some interaction with my collection of scripts... I'd say I use quite a lot of useful programs written in those fanfare-laden languages.
- parenthesis 16y ago> What's the last useful LISP program you have used? What proportion does it consist among the other useful programs you use? Was that a subtle dig at those who spend too much time on HN?