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"a god like language" Such hyperbole can only be found in the lisp world. You guys need to take lisp off its pedestal.
by AlexanderDhoore 7y ago
"a god like language" Such hyperbole can only be found in the lisp world. You guys need to take lisp off its pedestal.
- delish 7y ago> Such hyperbole can only be found in the lisp world. Paul Graham may agree with you! Graham found a guy on slashdot with the same funny notion: > "I have heard more than one LISP advocate state such subjective comments as, "LISP is the most powerful and elegant programming language in the world" and expect such comments to be taken as objective truth. I have never heard a Java, C++, C, Perl, or Python advocate make the same claim about their own language of choice." > - A guy on Slashdot. What theory fits this data? http://www.paulgraham.com/quotes.html http://www.paulgraham.com/quotes.html
- AlexanderDhoore 7y agoAny idea what he means with "What theory fits this data" ?
- singularity2001 7y agoHe is (hyperbolically?) asking for a scientific explanation `why` Lispers are so convinced of their language (and others not).
- CDSlice 7y agoI don't know, some Rust devs seem to think that too. That's why the Rust Evangelism Strike Force exists.
- lispm 7y agomaybe it was irony? or something similar?
- krapp 7y agoThe one that always gets me is "Lisp has no syntax."