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> I'm skeptical for the simple reason that this post never calls out any specific feature of Lisp or Smalltalk which could cause this problem How about the fac
by humanrebar 8y ago
> I'm skeptical for the simple reason that this post never calls out any specific feature of Lisp or Smalltalk which could cause this problem
How about the fact that Smalltalk at scale involves custom version control systems? I'm haven't used Smalltalk seriously, but that feature gap alone could keep Smalltalk projects and teams small.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2031536 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2031536
- ken 8y agoHmm, it's true that one common feature of both of these languages is that they traditionally use process images. That's not required, though, and every Lisp program over 100 lines I've seen written in the past 25 years has used a normal text-based version control system. Also, while bypassing version control and doing everything in-process can be a great productivity boon for a single programmer, even a team of 2 has outgrown that. This wouldn't explain why (he thinks) these languages work for small teams but not larger teams.
- xkriva11 8y agoPharo uses Git