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One thing which Common Lisp needs the least today is the style guide :) I'd love to see more apps, innovations, success stories and use cases.
by mapcars 7y ago
One thing which Common Lisp needs the least today is the style guide :)
I'd love to see more apps, innovations, success stories and use cases.
- umvi 7y agoI think Common Lisp just needs a rebranding/remarketing strategy. Until recently I always thought it was an ancient, mostly obsolete language that had a cult following due to Emacs or something. For some reason I grouped Common Lisp together with Fortran and COBOL in my mind and didn't realize it was separate from Lisp. That perception needs to change if you want it to gain more traction among developers.
- cageface 7y agoS-expr syntax will doom the lisp family to niche applications. I really didn’t want to accept this for a long time because I think lisp is a beautiful language but I finally gave up on it.
- justinmeiners 7y agosyntax is the deciding factor in a languages success?
- owl57 7y agoJS seems even more popular than warranted by its place in the browser. Maybe Netscape management wasn't completely off target with that "Make it look like Java" thing.
- cageface 7y agoIt can be if it’s off putting enough to the average developer. There were a lot of good ideas in lisp. Just about all of them have made their way into popular languages except the syntax. It’s not an accident imo.
- carapace 7y agoIt worked for Python.
- tjr 7y agodidn't realize [Common Lisp] was separate from Lisp. Can you expound upon what you realized here, and why it made Common Lisp seem more appealing?
- taeric 7y agoI don't disagree, but how? My gut has always been it needs a prominent sponsor, but it seems the days of sponsors have come and gone, having done all the damage they can.